Clarence ThomasThinkers

Adarand v. Pena (race classification under government contracts) is wrongheaded, for any government-sponsored racial discrimination based on benign prejudice to benefit someone based on their race is just as noxious as discrimination inspired by malicious prejudice.

Affirmative action is wrong, for government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs may have been motivated, in part, by good intentions cannot provide refuge from the principle that under our Constitution, the government may not make distinctions on the basis of race.

The Constitution of the US is a document that places whole areas outside the reach of Congress' regulatory authority, i.e. the first and second amendments which contain an express limitation on the government's authority.

Discrimination is, like sharp turns in a road, critical to address because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.

Government does not have a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but not government.

A Judge is tasked to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say.

A Judge is to be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the Constitution.

The Left-wing is more of a personal threat than the Ku Klux Klan. While we'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; it feels as though we'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.

The Liberal is more racist than the white southerner — 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.

Marriage is, in our society, not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, so the law might change the former, but it cannot change the latter.

Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious practice.