"Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons……" — Clarence Thomas

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

— Clarence Thomas

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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…
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…
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…
I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my…
Merely because I was black, it seemed, I was supposed to listen to Hugh Maskela instead of Carole King, just…

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"Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons……" — Clarence Thomas

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