Clarence Thomas Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.”

“I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA.”

“You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard.”

“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.”

“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.”