Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. Clarence Thomas More Quotes by Clarence Thomas More Quotes From Clarence Thomas We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964. Clarence Thomas civil-rights-act-of-1964 civil-rights rights 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 tools needs thinking My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal. Clarence Thomas grandmother grandfather people I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system. Clarence Thomas sympathetic get-away groups 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 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. Clarence Thomas real people school 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 political law reality I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Clarence Thomas atlas fountainhead 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 hymns black party So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest Clarence Thomas affirmative action conversation The White House said today that Judge Clarence Thomas, President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, had smoked marijuana while in college. Clarence Thomas marijuana weed college 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 To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity. Clarence Thomas denial race humanity 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. Clarence Thomas responsibility attitude men I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it. Clarence Thomas environment proud religious 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 congress politics government I would walk into the Carnegie Library and I would see the pictures of Booker T. and pictures of Frederick Douglass and I would read. I would go into the Savannah Public Libraries in the stacks and see all of the newspapers from all over the country. Did I dream that I would be on the Supreme Court? No. But I dreamt that there was a world out there that was worth pursuing. Clarence Thomas library dream country 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 color kids ideas I don't really have the luxury to be bitter. I don't have the luxury of having negative things in my life. Clarence Thomas bitter luxury negative 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. Clarence Thomas style attitude thinking
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