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48 quotes by Clarence Thomas

Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Succeeding Thurgood Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Court. Thomas grew up in Savannah, Georgia, and was educated at the College of the Holy Cross and at Yale Law School. In 1974, he was appointed an Assistant Attorney General in Missouri and subsequently practiced law there in the private sector. In 1979, he...
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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

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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... →

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

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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... →

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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.... →

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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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There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my... →

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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... →

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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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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... →

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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... →

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

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My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

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