3 December 2020 Clarence Thomas Oh, I don’t think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That’s not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he’d prefer me to do it than somebody else.
3 December 2020 Clarence Thomas And I don’t think that government has 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 I don’t think government has a role.
3 December 2020 Clarence Thomas When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it’s at the bottom. It’s the people who are in school systems that don’t educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.
3 December 2020 Clarence Thomas I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people’s lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run.
3 December 2020 Clarence Thomas My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.
