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

- Clarence Thomas

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 …

- Clarence Thomas

While the romanticized ideal of universal public education resonates with the cognoscenti who oppose vouchers, poor urban families just want the best…

- Clarence Thomas

I'm not an Uncle Tom. . .. I'm going to be here for 40 years. For those who don't like it, get over it.

- Clarence Thomas

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 opi…

- Clarence Thomas

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 …

- Clarence Thomas

I was smart enough to use pot without getting caught, and now I'm on the Supreme Court. If you were stupid enough to get caught, that's your problem.…

- Clarence Thomas

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

- Clarence Thomas

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 …

- Clarence Thomas