Clarence Thomas Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Clarence Thomas

  Fighting, Numbers, People

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• When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because of the color of your skin.

  Clarence Thomas

  Kids, Color, Ideas

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• I agree with the (Supreme Court's) holding that racial discrimination in higher education admissions will be illegal in 25 years. They are illegal now.

  Clarence Thomas

  Years, Discrimination, Illegal

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• I actually think that I have been fortunate to have had misfortune, because the response, in responding to the misfortune, you develop in your own life, you develop sort of the tools you need to continue on, or to do better.

  Clarence Thomas

  Thinking, Needs, Tools

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The Constitution does not vest in Congress the authority to protect society from every bad act that might befall it....[I]f followed to its logical extreme, [this approach] would result in an unwarranted expansion of federal power.

  Clarence Thomas

  Expansion, Doe, Might

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• 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.

  Clarence Thomas

  Confused, Sacrifice, Thinking

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

  Clarence Thomas

  Groups, Get Away, Sympathetic

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• The truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in obligations and responsibilities.

  Clarence Thomas

  Responsibility, Jeans, Dancing

  Clarence Thomas (1992). “Clarence Thomas -- Confronting the Future: Selections from the Senate Confirmation Hearings and Prior Speeches”, Gateway Books

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• 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

  Cynical, Negative, Saws

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

  Clarence Thomas

  Believe, Thank God, Right Now

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

  Clarence Thomas

  Religious, Proud, Environment

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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.

  Clarence Thomas

  College, Way, Saws

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• The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

  Clarence Thomas

  People, Black, Way

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• I'm not an Uncle Tom. . .. I'm going to be here for 40 years. For those who don't like it, get over it.

  Clarence Thomas

  Uncles, Years, Complaining

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• If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything-and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.

  Clarence Thomas

  Government, Politics, Congress

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• A theory deeply etched in our law [is that] a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech after they break the law rather than to throttle them and all others beforehand.

  Clarence Thomas

  Rights, Law, Justice

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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. So the freedoms that we talk about today, the liberties that we talk about today were the benefits that you got from discharging your responsibilities.

  Clarence Thomas

  Attitude, Responsibility, Men

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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

  Clarence Thomas

  Angel, Thinking, White

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• In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today's decision might change the former, but it cannot change the latter.

  Clarence Thomas

  Change, Religious, Decision

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• The Constitution contains no 'dignity' Clause, and even if it did, the government would be incapable of bestowing dignity. ... Slaves did not lose their dignity (any more than they lost their humanity) because the government allowed them to be enslaved. Those held in internment camps did not lose their dignity because the government confined them. And those denied governmental benefits certainly do not lose their dignity because the government denies them those benefits.

  Clarence Thomas

  Government, Humanity, Gay Marriage

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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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  Friends, Winning, Thinking

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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 body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.

  Clarence Thomas

  Writing, Fighting, Thinking

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

  Clarence Thomas

  Teaching, Self, Helping

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• 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 that.

  Clarence Thomas

  Believe, Rights, Issues

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• I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

  Clarence Thomas

  Atlas, Fountainhead

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