"Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes……" — Clarence Thomas
"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 who I am for who they think I should be."
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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 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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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is…
— Hank Aaron
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So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks.…
— Steven Biko
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What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could…
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.
— Maya Angelou
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We need to be protecting American citizens who are here, out of work, and hurting today-minorities, Blacks and Whites and…
— Jeff Sessions
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The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together,…
— Theodore Hesburgh
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The myth of integration as propounded under the banner of the liberal ideology must be cracked because it makes people…
— Steven Biko
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I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.
— Frances Farenthold
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Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.
— William Lloyd Garrison
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When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
— Jesse Jackson
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All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not…
— Leontyne Price
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