Clarence Thomas Professions : Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Born : June 23, 1948 Browse All Authors Top 107 quotes by Clarence Thomas Like so many married couples, we share many of the same ideals, principles, and aspirations for America, but we have our own separate careers, and our own ideas and opinions too. Clarence Thomas Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words. Clarence Thomas But it turned out that through all of that, ultimately the biggest impediment was the modern-day liberal, they were the ones who would discount all those things because they have one issue or because they have the power to caricature you. Clarence Thomas This is a circus. It's a national disgrace. And from my standpoint as a Black American, as far as I'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity Blacks, who in any way deign to think for themselves, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured, by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree. Clarence Thomas There's been some talk... that the vaccinations are efficacious in preventing some degree of infection to others. Clarence Thomas I think the media makes it sound as though you are just always going right to your personal preference, so if they think you are anti-abortion or something personally, they think that’s the way you always will come out. They think you’re for this or for that. They think you become like a politician. That’s a problem. You’re going to jeopardize any faith in the legal institutions. Clarence Thomas Theres different sets of rules for different people, if you criticize a black person whos more liberal, youre a racist whereas if you can do whatever to me -- or now, Ben Carson -- and thats fine because youre not really black because youre not doing what we expect black people to do. Clarence Thomas Similar Authors Antonin Scalia associate-justice-of-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states Anthony Kennedy associate-justice-of-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states Elena Kagan associate-justice-of-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states Sonia Sotomayor associate-justice-of-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states Stephen Breyer associate-justice-of-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states Samuel Alito associate-justice-of-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states All Authors