Top 49 Quotes by Clarence Thomas

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.

I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it.

I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.

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

I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable.

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

There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard.

Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.

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.

If I were a black liberal, I would be hailed, I guess. But I'm not. I mean, I think for myself. I want to make my own decisions.