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(1948- ) U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

Equality

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 19, 2015November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories equalityTags Clarence Thomas

No prior restraint on speech

A theory deeply etched in our law [is that] a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech after they break the law rather than to throttle them and all others beforehand.

Author Greg RavenPosted on August 5, 2013November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories speechTags Clarence Thomas

No prior restraint

A theory deeply etched in our law [is that] a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech after they break the law rather than to throttle them and all others beforehand.

Author Greg RavenPosted on June 20, 2011November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories speechTags Clarence Thomas

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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