Clarence Thomas Quotes

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.

The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

Human rights and rule of law are inseparably connected.

The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

There can be no liberty without the law.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.

If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

Law is the strongest link between man and freedom.

All persons are equal before the law, so that no person can hold another as a slave.

Here everyone is his own master. Civil liberty places all inhabitants on an equal footing. The humble cannot be oppressed by the mighty, nor the poor by the rich.

It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts fair treatment before the law.

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

Every single American deserves to be treated equally by their fellow Americans and under the law.

I believe it is my job to do everything I can so that everyone in our society feels safe, feels that justice is not an abstract concept but a fact of life for all Americans.

Loyalty to the principles upon which our Government rests positively demands that the equality before the law which it guarantees to every citizen should be justly and in good faith conceded in all parts of the land.

All of us in America want there to be fairness when it comes to justice.

The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective

There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is the court.

The judicial branch has, in its finest hours, stood firmly on the side of individuals against those who would trample their rights.

The idea of "human rights," for example - sometimes it bothers me. Not in itself, but because the concept of human rights has replaced the much grander idea of justice.

The law exists to protect the weak from the strong.

Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.