Commonsense quotations attributed to Justice Clarence Thomas

Nice stuff.

Emily Hulsey writing at IJReview:
8 Quotes by Justice Clarence Thomas   That Bring Common Sense and Civility to the Race Discussion

#1 – “To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.”

#2 – “My sadness is that we are probably today more race and difference-conscious than I was in the 1960s when I went to school. To my knowledge, I was the first black kid in Savannah, Georgia, to go to a white (Catholic) school. Rarely did the issue of race come up.”

#3 – “I don’t believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.”

#4 – “The black people I knew came from different places and backgrounds- social, economic, even ethnic- yet the color of our skin was somehow supposed to make us identical in spite of our differences. I didn’t buy it. Of course we had all experienced racism in one way or another, but did that mean that we had to think alike?”

#5 – “Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn’t look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I’d still be in Savannah.” 

#6 – “Every person in this room has endured a slight. Every person. Somebody has said something that has hurt their feelings or did something to them — left them out.”

#7 – “The absolute worst I have ever been treated, the worst things that have been done to me, the worst things that have been said about me, are by northern liberal elites, not by the people of Savannah, Georgia.”

#8 – “Why do you think I get in so much controversy? People have a model of what they think a black person should think.”

Justice Thomas’s words remind us that, despite......