Clarence thomas

And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.

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...

I do think that our freedoms are at risk.

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.

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

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...

I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist.

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...