“I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachin...” — Clarence Thomas Quote

“I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.”

“There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard. In order to respond to that, he had to become a hard man, with very hard rules, very hard discipline for himself, very hard days, hard work, et cetera.”

“My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies.”

“I now believe Malcolm Turnbull is worse than Tony Abbott.”

“I met Malcolm the month before he was killed. He deeply changed my mind about America.”

“'Malcolm X' was impressionable for me as a kid.”