Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomasis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSupreme Court Justice
Date of Birth23 June 1948
CityPin Point, GA
CountryUnited States of America
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We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.
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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.
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A theory deeply etched in our law [is that] a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech after they break the law rather than to throttle them and all others beforehand.
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I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
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The state can't undo the harm that was done, but I feel very strongly that if there is any role for the state, it is to protect us from others.
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She was a student member of the promotions committee for Rocky Dailey. I was supposed to get in contact with her but couldn't reach her. The police told the dean who told me that she had just died.
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When you prevent somebody from participating in our free society and the economics of our free society, I have some real problems.
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Without performing legal acrobatics, I cannot make the instruction confusing. And I certainly cannot do the contortions necessary to find the Texas appellate court's decision 'objectively unreasonable.
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We will miss him deeply as a friend and as a colleague. He was a good man who epitomized fairness, dignity and strength of character.
There is some misunderstanding. We do not look any place. We do not recruit. We are passive. We look at what comes to us.
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When I went into the seminary, I was one of those victims of New Math and had not had Algebra I and had no idea what we were doing in New Math in the ninth grade. But when I went into the seminary, they had gone the traditional route and taught first-year algebra.
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There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.
I went into the seminary when I was 16.
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I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine.