121 Quotes by Clarence Thomas

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

I went into the seminary when I was 16.

There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.

When I went into the seminary, I was one of those victims of New Math and had not had Algebra I and had no idea what we were doing in New Math in the ninth grade. But when I went into the seminary, they had gone the traditional route and taught first-year algebra.

We hold that the program , as it appears to have been structured at the time (Harper) was placed on it, differed from parole in name only, ... and affirm the (appeals court's) decision.

She was a student member of the promotions committee for Rocky Dailey. I was supposed to get in contact with her but couldn't reach her. The police told the dean who told me that she had just died.

He is a great man. There is nothing I could say to tease him.

the demeaning treatment Anita Hill received before the all-male committee.

The Constitution does not vest in Congress the authority to protect society from every bad act that might befall it....[I]f followed to its logical extreme, [this approach] would result in an unwarranted expansion of federal power.