Clarence Thomas Quotes

Without performing legal acrobatics, I cannot make the instruction confusing. And I certainly cannot do the contortions necessary to find the Texas appellate court's decision 'objectively unreasonable. - Clarence Thomas

When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because of the color of your skin. - Clarence Thomas

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964. - Clarence Thomas

We will miss him deeply as a friend and as a colleague. He was a good man who epitomized fairness, dignity and strength of character. - Clarence Thomas

We hold that the program , as it appears to have been structured at the time (Harper) was placed on it, differed from parole in name only, ... and affirm the (appeals court's) decision. - Clarence Thomas

Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that. - Clarence Thomas

Today, now, it is time to move forward, a time to look for what is good in others, what is good in our country. It is time to see what we have in common, what we have to share as human beings and citizens. - Clarence Thomas

This detention falls squarely within the federal government's war powers, and we lack the expertise and capacity to second-guess that decision. - Clarence Thomas

There is some misunderstanding. We do not look any place. We do not recruit. We are passive. We look at what comes to us. - Clarence Thomas

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