American - Judge | June 23, 1948 -
But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions.
Clarence Thomas
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And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.
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My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.
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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.
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You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
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You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.
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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.
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I went into the seminary when I was 16.
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I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA.
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I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine.
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I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable.
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My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies.
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