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I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
— Clarence Thomas
It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be black. That's ridiculous.
— Clarence Thomas
I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.
— Clarence Thomas
You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
— Clarence Thomas
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.
— Clarence Thomas
I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it.
— Clarence Thomas
And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
— Clarence Thomas
In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since.
— Anita Hill
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.
— Clarence Thomas
Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us.
— Rush Limbaugh
The White House said today that Judge Clarence Thomas, President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, had smoked marijuana while in college.
— Clarence Thomas
I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
— Clarence Thomas
My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies.
— Clarence Thomas
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.
— Clarence Thomas
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.
— Clarence Thomas
It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.
— Clarence Thomas
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
— Clarence Thomas
The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.
— Clarence Thomas
The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.
— Clarence Thomas
My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.
— Clarence Thomas
I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
— Clarence Thomas
I do think that our freedoms are at risk.
— Clarence Thomas
I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable.
— Clarence Thomas
I've probably given more speeches, been on TV more than any other member of the Court - or almost any other member of the Court.
— Clarence Thomas
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
I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine.
— Clarence Thomas
I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA.
— Clarence Thomas
It takes a person with a mission to succeed.
— Clarence Thomas
If a liberal were to attack Justice Clarence Thomas on the grounds that he's black, we would all go crazy.
— Newt Gingrich
I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
— 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
If I were a black liberal, I would be hailed, I guess. But I'm not. I mean, I think for myself. I want to make my own decisions.
— Clarence Thomas
I went into the seminary when I was 16.
— Clarence Thomas
