"I don't believe in quotas. America was founded……" — Clarence Thomas
"I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights."
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59 Quotes by Clarence Thomas
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Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
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I would walk into the Carnegie Library and I would see the pictures of Booker T. and pictures of Frederick…
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It takes a person with a mission to succeed.
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The White House said today that Judge Clarence Thomas, President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, had smoked marijuana while in college.
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So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
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To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.
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The absolute worst I have ever been treated, the worst things that have been done to me, the worst things…
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The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.
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But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist…
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I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my…
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Merely because I was black, it seemed, I was supposed to listen to Hugh Maskela instead of Carole King, just…
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I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
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