American - Judge | June 23, 1948 -
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Clarence Thomas
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I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.
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I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.
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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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And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
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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.
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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.
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It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.
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