It’s not often that Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas speaks in public. Clarence Thomas has now served longer than anyone else on the court — since the fall of 1991.

What he said last week should be heard by every American. He called the nation back to our founding principles. The Justice spoke to a full audience at the University of Texas at Austin in an event to honor America at 250. 

Speaking of his grandparents, who reared Clarence and his brother, he noted, “They told us, ‘We don’t have no education and no chance, but you boys are going to have a chance, [and] we going to devote the rest of our lives to you boys….It was their devotion, their love, their dedication to raising us right that has made the difference, not the words, though the words expressed as best they could what they intended to do, their devotion is what mattered.”

From rural Georgia to one of the most powerful positions in the nation — what an amazing story.

Clarence Thomas is the ultimate American success story. Born in dire poverty. Apparently, he didn’t even have a bed to sleep in until he was in his teens. Before that, he slept in a chair.

 Meanwhile, in his speech, Justice Thomas was critical of Progressivism because it promotes a vision for America that is different from that of the founders — and God is at the heart........

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