Long gone is the time when we opposed the notion that we all looked alike and talked alike. Somehow we have come to exalt the new black stereotype above all and to demand conformity to that norm... [However], I assert my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was an intellectual slave because I'm black.
Clarence ThomasIt really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.
Clarence ThomasMy 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 or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.
Clarence ThomasAnd I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
Clarence ThomasI don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
Clarence Thomas