Clarence Thomas Quotes

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• Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
• I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
• I would walk into the Carnegie Library and I would see the pictures of Booker T. and pictures of Frederick Douglass and I would read.…
• It takes a person with a mission to succeed.
• The White House said today that Judge Clarence Thomas, President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, had smoked marijuana while in college.
• So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
• To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.
• The absolute worst I have ever been treated, the worst things that have been done to me, the worst things that have been said about…
• The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.
• But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is…
• I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need…
• Merely because I was black, it seemed, I was supposed to listen to Hugh Maskela instead of Carole King, just as I was expected to…
• I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
• Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of…
• When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin Now the…
• I do think that our freedoms are at risk.
• I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.
• Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to sacrifice…
• I was smart enough to use pot without getting caught, and now I'm on the Supreme Court. If you were stupid enough to get caught,…
• Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn’t look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive.  If I had been as sensitive…

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