Clarence Thomas Quotes

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

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.

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

I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.

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.

I agree with the holding that racial discrimination in higher education admissions will be illegal in 25 years. They are illegal now.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I do think that our freedoms are at risk.

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

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

I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They're just my kind of people.

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

It takes a person with a mission to succeed.

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.

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

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

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

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.