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Clarence Thomas

Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American judge, lawyer, and government official who currently serves as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Thomas succeeded Thurgood Marshall and is the second African American to serve on the court.

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Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn’t look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I’d still be in Savannah.

1960S, Differences, Look, Race, Says, Sex

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.

Doe, Expansion, Extreme, Federal, Might, Society

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.

Black, Break Up, Heading, Organization, Say, Tell

I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist.

Destination, Excellent, Hair, Halfway, Juan, Thinking

It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.

Bugs, Educated, Supposed, Tell, Thinking, Years

[T]he courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior. . . . The mere fact that a school is black does not mean that it is the product of an unconstitutional violation.

Assume, Black, Fact, Mean, School, Unconstitutional

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.

Admissions, Discrimination, Education, Illegal, Years

To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.

Define, Denial, Humanity, Nothing, Race, Short

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.

Change, Decision, Latter, Marriage, Religious

The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.

Responsibility, People, Decision, Quick, Making

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.

Attitude, Benefits, Men, Responsibilities, Responsibility, Today

I was smart enough to use pot without getting caught, and now I'm on the Supreme Court. If you were stupid enough to get caught, that's your problem. Your appeal is denied. This 40 year sentence just might teach you a lesson.

Smart, Stupid, Supreme, Use, Years

I don't really have the luxury to be bitter. I don't have the luxury of having negative things in my life.

Bitter, Having, Luxury, Negative

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs may have been motivated, in part, by good intentions cannot provide refuge from the principle that under our Constitution, the government may not make distinctions on the basis of race.

Equality, Government, Intentions, Provide, Race, Recognize

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.

Attitude, Done, Style, Tell, Thinking

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

Doors, Education, Inspirational, Integrity, Open

A judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the Constitution.

People, Judging, Constitution, Faithfully, Oath

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

Believe, God, Probably, Right, Right Now, Thank God

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.

Among, Crime, People, Real, School

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

Atlas, Ayn, Fountainhead, Partial, Rand

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