I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine. Clarence Thomas More Quotes by Clarence Thomas More Quotes From Clarence Thomas I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it. I was going to be a priest; I'm proud of it. And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now. Clarence Thomas angry thank-god god believe 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 decide opinions job people Look where we are, where now that trust or that belief is gone forever, when you lose that trust, especially in the institution that I’m in, it changes the institution fundamentally. You begin to look over your shoulder. It’s like, kind of an infidelity that you can explain ... but you can’t undo it. Clarence Thomas I mean you trusted each other, you laughed together, you went to lunch together every day and I can only hope you can keep it. Clarence Thomas When Many Republicans look at the House vote and Many Republicans look at just the shifting sentiment about this issue, i think this is an issue that many Americans, regardless of political affiliation, feel has been resolved. Clarence Thomas Justice Thomas is never interested in defending his reputation or himself, ultimately, [he] agreed to be interviewed. Clarence Thomas Justice Thomas waited until page 62 to point out that the Second Amendment isn't a second-class right – And over on CNN, I was amazed and amused to watch legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin throw a hissy fit as if that's some new and novel concept. Clarence Thomas Justice Alito asks why I have begun my opinion by reviewing some of the dangers and challenges posed by gun violence. Clarence Thomas I am not simply saying that' guns are bad,'. Clarence Thomas We are not going to stop what we are doing to share the information that we've gotten so far with the Department of Justice. We have to do our work. Clarence Thomas I do think what happened at the court is tremendously bad, i wonder how long we're going to have these institutions at the rate we're undermining them, and then I wonder when they're gone or they are destabilized, what we'll have as a country -- and I don't think that the prospects are good if we continue to lose them. Clarence Thomas The institution that I'm a part of, if someone said that one line of one opinion would be leaked by anyone, you'd say,' Oh, that's impossible. No one would ever do that.' There is such a belief in the rule of law, a belief in Supreme Court, a belief in what we were doing that Supreme Court was verboten, it was beyond anyone's understanding, or at least anyone's imagination, that someone would do that. Clarence Thomas It is really hard to see him leave. Clarence Thomas There is no need to make the work product inaccessible. Clarence Thomas We use stare decisis as a mantra when we don't want to think. Clarence Thomas I think we should be careful destroying our institutions because they don't give us what we want when we want. Clarence Thomas The events of earlier this week is one symptom of that. Clarence Thomas Some of this seems a little bit counterintuitive and I admit to being a little bit wrapped around the axle. Clarence Thomas This is a circus, it's a national disgrace. And from my standpoint as a Black American, as far as I am concerned, it's a high-tech lynching for uppity Blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves. 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
