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
rights civil-rights civil-rights-act
We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.
decided sometime work
My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would never work for anyone. He was also a very independent man.
people
There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.
based box certain judgments people supposed
It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I'm black. So I'm supposed to think a certain way. I'm supposed to have certain opinions. I don't do that. You don't create a box and put people in and then make a lot of generalizations about them.
catholic minority
I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA.
cases critics job people respond statements
My job is to write opinions. I decide cases and write opinions. It is not to respond to idiocy and critics who make statements that are unfounded. That doesn't mean that people shouldn't have constructive criticisms, but it should be constructive.
suddenly
My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies.
demeaning hill received treatment
the demeaning treatment Anita Hill received before the all-male committee.