"In my humble opinion, those who come to……" — Clarence Thomas
"In my humble opinion, those who come to engage in debates of consequence, and who challenge accepted wisdom, should expect to be treated badly. Nonetheless, they must stand undaunted. That is required. And that should be expected. For it is bravery that is required to secure freedom."
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59 Quotes by Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas has 59 quotes on this site.
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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 don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
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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 accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people,…
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
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In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but…
— Michelle Bachelet
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I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your…
— John Adams
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In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans,…
— Mario Batali
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Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
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I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm…
— Mary J. Blige
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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
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I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.
— Terry Bradshaw
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In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.
— Jessica Alba
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