Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else. Clarence Thomas administrationattitudejoin share on social
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 robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony. Clarence Thomas adultafraidbigot share on social
I still have a 15¢ sticker on the frame of my law degree. It's tainted, so I just leave it in the basement. Clarence Thomas basementdegreeframe Change image and share on social
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 businesses that you've got to do this and you've got to do that. Clarence Thomas aggressivelybusinesseconomic share on social
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. Clarence Thomas destinationexcellentgood Change image and share on social
My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies. Clarence Thomas brotherdiegrandparent Change image and share on social
Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome. Clarence Thomas administrationblackbreak share on social
It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think. Clarence Thomas bugeducatespend Change image and share on social
My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would never work for anyone. He was also a very independent man. Clarence Thomas 1940sdecidegrandfather Change image and share on social
When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit. Clarence Thomas biteblackbottom share on social
