Quotes by Clarence Thomas

About Clarence Thomas:

Clarence Thomas 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.
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I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.

Clarence Thomas

Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome.

Clarence Thomas

But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don't issue mandates to businesses that you've got to do this and you've got to do ...

Clarence Thomas

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

Clarence Thomas

I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.

Clarence Thomas

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.

Clarence Thomas

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 ...

Clarence Thomas

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

Clarence Thomas

It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I'm black. So I'm supposed to think a certain way. I'm supposed to have certain opinions. I don't do that. You don't create a box and put pe...

Clarence Thomas

But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions.

Clarence Thomas

Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.

Clarence Thomas

My job is to write opinions. I decide cases and write opinions. It is not to respond to idiocy and critics who make statements that are unfounded. That doesn't mean that people shouldn't have constructive criticisms, but it should be constructive.

Clarence Thomas

I was never a liberal. I was radical. I was cynical. I was negative. But, I was never a liberal. I always saw that as too lukewarm for me.

Clarence Thomas

I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA.

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I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable.

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I've probably given more speeches, been on TV more than any other member of the Court - or almost any other member of the Court.

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

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

Clarence Thomas

I do think that our freedoms are at risk.

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

Clarence Thomas

I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine.

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Author Bio

  • NameClarence Thomas
  • DescriptionAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
  • BornJune 23, 1948
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJudge; Lawyer