Clarence Thomas Short Quotes

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I could only choose between being an outcast and being dishonest.

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An education is meaningless unless it equips students to have a better life.

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To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.

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Arguments should not sneak around in disguise, as if dissent were somehow sinister.

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Something has gone seriously awry with this Court's interpretation of the Constitution.

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I could feel the golden handcuffs of a comfortable but unfulfilling life snapping shut on my wrists.

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I often had occasion to remind myself in years to come that self-interest isn't a principle- it's just self-interest.

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Though being underestimated has its advantages, the stench of racial inferiority still confounds my olfactory nerves.

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I think it is important for judges not to have agendas or to have strong ideology or ideological views. That is baggage.

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Then, as always, I felt morally obligated to advocate our official position, even when it conflicted with my personal views.

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I began to suspect that Daddy had been right all along: the only hope I had of changing the world was to change myself first.

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Perhaps the fires through which I had passed would have a purifying effect on me, just as a blast furnace burns the impurities out of steel.

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For a time we wondered why our real father didn't come and rescue us, but we had long since accepted our fate by the time we finally met him.

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The truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in obligations and responsibilities.

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I was seized with a guilt that I knew would never leave me, and I knew I didn't deserve to be free of it. I hadn't quite reached the end of my rope, but I was close enough.

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Thanks to God's direct intervention, I had risen phoenixlike from the ashes of self-pity and despair, and though my wounds were still raw, I trusted that in time they, too, would heal.

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I knew that until I was ready to tell the truth as I saw it, I was no better than a politician- but I didn't know whether I would ever be brave enough to break ranks and speak my mind.

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I will not cataloge my opinions to which there have been objections since they are a matter of public record. But I must note in passing that I can't help but wonder if some of my critics can read.

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