Clarence Thomas Quotes

• People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

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• My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.

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• My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

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• I’d grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I’d been afraid of the wrong white people all along – where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.

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• I grew up in a religious environment, and I’m proud of it.

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• And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.

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• I don’t know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching – ’cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.

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• There’s a difference between someone who’s ‘harsh’ and someone who is ‘hard.’ Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard.

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• When I went into the seminary, I was one of those victims of New Math and had not had Algebra I and had no idea what we were doing in New Math in the ninth grade. But when I went into the seminary, they had gone the traditional route and taught first-year algebra.

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• You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.

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• You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They’re people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.

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• When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it’s at the bottom. It’s the people who are in school systems that don’t educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.

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• We’ve talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

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• 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.

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• The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.

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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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• Oh, I don’t think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That’s not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he’d prefer me to do it than somebody else.

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• It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I’m supposed to think.

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• I’ been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.

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• I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.

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Clarence Thomas (34)

Birth:	23rd June, 1948
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Judge

About

Clarence Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia. He is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Succeeding Thurgood Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Court. Thomas graduated from Holy Cross in 1971 with an A.B. cum laude in English literature. Thomas entered Yale Law School, from which he received a Juris Doctor degree in 1974, graduating towards the middle of his class. In 1974, he was appointed an Assistant Attorney General in Missouri and subsequently practiced law there in the private sector. In 1982, President Ronald Reagan appointed Thomas Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He served in that role for 16 months and on July 1, 1991, was nominated by Bush to fill Marshall's seat on the United States Supreme Court. Thomas's formal confirmation hearings began on September 10, 1991.

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