Clarence Thomas

There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my…

— Clarence Thomas

My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would…

— Clarence Thomas

I went into the seminary when I was 16.

— Clarence Thomas

Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the…

— Clarence Thomas

I would walk into the Carnegie Library and I would see the pictures of Booker T. and pictures of Frederick Douglass and…

— Clarence Thomas

It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be…

— Clarence Thomas

Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there…

— Clarence Thomas

I still have a 15¢ sticker on the frame of my law degree. It's tainted, so I just leave it in the basement.

— Clarence Thomas

I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

— Clarence Thomas

I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent…

— Clarence Thomas

My job is to write opinions. I decide cases and write opinions. It is not to respond to idiocy and critics who…

— Clarence Thomas

I was never a liberal. I was radical. I was cynical. I was negative. But, I was never a liberal. I always…

— Clarence Thomas

The truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in obligations…

— Clarence Thomas

The Constitution, in addition to delegating certain enumerated powers to Congress, places whole areas outside the reach of Congress' regulatory authority. The…

— Clarence Thomas