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

— Clarence Thomas

#act #after #before #civil #civil rights

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent. ↗

— Cal Thomas

#get #government #kick #need #pants

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. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#because #becomes #critical #discrimination #economy

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

#aggressively #believe #businesses #economic #economic system

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

#black #blacks #break #conservative #conservatives

I do think that our freedoms are at risk. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#i #i do #our #risk #think

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#believe #founded #group #i #individual

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

#destination #excellent #good #good person #got

I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#bad #body #breath #every #fight

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#finds #rest #seeks #who #work