Clarence Thomas Quotes

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Clarence Thomas

Education, Good, Best

I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching - 'cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.
Clarence Thomas

Everything, Win, Through

And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.
Clarence Thomas

God, Government, Live

I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.
Clarence Thomas

Wrong, Afraid, Wonder

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

Freedom, Attitude, Liberty

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

God, Angry, Thank

Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.
Clarence Thomas

Service, Road, Economy

But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don't issue mandates to businesses that you've got to do this and you've got to do that.
Clarence Thomas

Person, After, Rights

I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.
Clarence Thomas

Miracle, Thinks, Admit

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

Partial, Atlas, Tend

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

Partial, Malcolm, Teachings

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

Black, Vote, Opinions

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.
Clarence Thomas

Someone, Black, Tell

I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
Clarence Thomas

I do think that our freedoms are at risk.
Clarence Thomas

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

Philosophy, America, Group

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

Proud, Religious

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.
Clarence Thomas

Good, Person, Short

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.
Clarence Thomas

Bad, Fight, Person

I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run.
Clarence Thomas

Government, Others, Lives

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

Old, Away, Wanted

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

Someone, After, Tell

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.
Clarence Thomas

Education, Read, Barely

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

Attitude, Done, Else

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.
Clarence Thomas

Same, Fact, Water

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Nationality: American

Type: Judge

Born: June 23, 1948

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