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
certainly change consider manner risk runs
It runs the risk of undermining the manner in which we consider the cases. Certainly it will change our proceedings. And I don't think for the better.
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.
I went into the seminary when I was 16.
character dignity good man strength
a good man who epitomized fairness, dignity and strength of character.
believe god grew religious thank
I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it. I was going to be a priest; I'm proud of it. And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
believe thank-god right-now
And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
believe rights issues
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.
There is some misunderstanding. We do not look any place. We do not recruit. We are passive. We look at what comes to us.
sex differences race
Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn’t look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I’d still be in Savannah.
believe equality race
I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits on the basis of race in order to foster some current notion of equality.... In my mind, government-sponsored racial discrimination based on benign prejudice is just as noxious as discrimination inspired by malicious prejudice.
thinking people miracle
I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.