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Posted on 04/17/2026 12:19:02 PM PDT by Twotone
A day after Ketanji Brown Jackson once again showed herself to be the worst justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas reminded us why he’s the best.
The current court’s longest-serving member delivered a resounding speech at the University of Texas on Wednesday commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Drawing on his own life story growing up in the segregated South, the Bush 41 appointee gave a full-throated defense of America’s founding ideals and principles.
“The second paragraph of the Declaration proclaims, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.’ Throughout my youth, these truths were articles of faith that were impervious to bigotry and discrimination,” Thomas said. “Despite the multiplicity of laws and customs that reeked of bigotry, it was universally believed among those blacks with whom I lived and who had very little or no formal education, that in God’s eyes and under our Constitution, we were equal.”
“At home, at school, and at church, we were taught that we are inherently equal; that equality came from God, and that it could not be diminished by man,” he added.
Thomas went on to herald the Founding Fathers for their bravery in signing their names to the Declaration, a decision he noted could have constituted treason against the British crown. He further underscored that “what changed the world was not the words” of the Declaration, but “the commitment and spirit of the people who were willing to labor, sacrifice, and even give their lives — what [Abraham] Lincoln in Gettysburg called ‘the last full measure of devotion’ for the Declaration’s principles.”
“It is that devotion to which we owe our rich inheritance. It was that devotion that sustained the Founding Fathers and the Continental Army as they fought and won the Revolutionary War, braved the winter at Valley Forge, crossed the Delaware and defeated an army many times their number and firepower to win their freedom,” Thomas said. “That devotion has driven the great achievements and heroism of Americans in the 250 years since.”
Such devotion, however, appears to be lacking in today’s political climate.
The justice noted how many talking heads in Washington, D.C. are quick to pay “lip service” to these founding principles but quickly cower when the going gets tough. He then paraphrased a passage he recently read to note how, once put in the public spotlight, “many people fall prey to the lores that are set up to turn them away from their previously untested principles. They become petrified by criticisms; so fearful of negative attention that they find ways to avoid doing the right thing; or they fall prey to the enchanting siren songs of flattery and become so bewitched by praise that they will desperately seek to conform accordingly.”
“They recast themselves as institutionalists, pragmatists, or thoughtful moderates, all as a way of justifying their failures to themselves, their consciences, and their country,” Thomas said, while presenting the Supreme Court’s decades-long failure to overturn Plessy v. Ferguson as an illustration of such cowardice.
“When Americans look to Washington and wonder why it so often disappoints, it is not because there are too few people who know what is right. It is not because we lack the intellect or the capacity or the talent. It is instead because there are too few people who are willing to do what it takes to do the right thing; to sacrifice the popularity, flattery, comfort, and security that are the purchase price for principle.”
Thomas’ assessment of the American experiment also included a pointed criticism of its chief opponent — that is, progressivism. He notably critiqued 20th century progressives like President Woodrow Wilson and John Dewey and underscored how such an ideology is completely antithetical to the Declaration’s devotion to natural rights.
“Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence, and hence our form of government,” Thomas said. “It holds that our rights and our dignities come not from God, but from government. It requires of the people a subservience and weakness incompatible with a constitution premised on the transcendent origin of our rights.”
In closing his remarks, the senior justice said that Americans will come upon moments in their lives that require them to possess the same devotion that the founders displayed in their time. While these incidents may be challenging and contain high risks, he encouraged listeners to do what is right, stand by principle, and “respond with courage.”
“Channel the courage of the men who faced down a king and signed [the Declaration], or a president who led the nation in a civil war rather than permit this house to be divided by the great contradiction of slavery,” Thomas said. “Take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure, and with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, let us mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.”
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Stomp a commie for mommie.
I’m putting up about 8 or 9 LED American flags along with massive amounts of other LED July 4th decorations and 10 foot banners.
Also, while already prepared well, by June 1st I will have gone through my prepper situation to make sure that I won’t be lacking for anything if Islam has any major successes here for the 250th.
Thomas is hated by the Left because he is “black”, an intellectual giant and not one of them. The “media” joined at the hip with the Left, has done massive work trying to keep American “blacks” from knowing and understanding Justice Thomas, because he is the antithesis of everything the Left stands for.
The only people who hate Justice Clarence Thomas are those with lower IQs than his.
“Clarence Thomas: Celebrate America 250 By Doing Something To Save The Country”
We recreate lost books that nobody reads anymore, record them into audio books thereby restoring them, and then these audio works end up in podcasting loops and they end up on YouTube and other places.
And it also increases the readership of those lost pages.
And every audio book we create is free and open source in the public domain.
Maybe tens of thousands of listeners is not enough, but is a measurable something. We are indeed doing something, right here.
Clarence Thomas: Celebrate America 250 By Doing Something To SAVE The Country
Correction/Clarification:
We recreate lost Founding Fathers/Founding Era books that nobody reads anymore, due to the considerable unpopularity of that era’s thinkers and the unpopularity of the Founding Fathers.
Justice Thomas has been my personal hero since democrats tried to derail his 1991 confirmation based on the allegations of sexual harassment by a former staffer-Anita Hill. He understands the constitution and how it is supposed to work-he should he be Chief Justice of the SC-not John Roberts...
“my prepper situation”-Thanks for the reminder-some non-food stuff got used during the Wuflu, and needs to be replenished. I live in a rural area, but SA is only 50 miles away-a big city=terrorist target...
Do something to save the country
No.
You can’t fix stupid.
Democrats and too many other party members are
stupid and they manage to make a majority.
Freedom is an anathema to them.
Freedom is scary, it means YOU are responsible
not some random act of fate.
Being a victim of a crime is one thing,
freely making a choice and expecting
me to pay for it is another thing.
America’s Free Constitutional Republic. May it withstand the winds of “progressivism” and every other wind contrary to freedom.
God bless Justice Thomas.
Amen.
Like you, for me the terrorist threat isn’t directly physical to my location but instead is more about the energy system or food system being interrupted, it could be cyber attacks or some physical destruction of something important that affects us on a big scale or just interferes with some grocery trucks for a week or two, or employees being told to stay home, or some such thing, perhaps even an annoyance of an interruption in delivery of a particular product.
Sometimes I think of what happened to Scalia.
I wish he could stay there another century...but alas, that is not possible...one thing I believe he could personally do is step down while there is still a Republican President and Senate to choose his replacement.
How about a July 4th “Purge”? Our side has a lot more ammo, and we could make a lot of progress in 12 hours.
My wife and I were on vacation in DC at that time. It was 24/7 on every TV channel.
Thune will do more than the Dems to derail a Trump nominee.
After 60 years of running the international drug trade and national drug trade in America and fighting in territorial wars and conducting hits and assassinations of each other, building ethnic and racial communities that operate largely outside of the governments and outsiders, and importing millions of their various tribal groups, the cities are not exactly void of armed and deadly populations.
My biggest concern is not being able to get any gas if trucking is interrupted. The nearest real grocery store is 20 miles North of here-a store in the county seat-a town of less than 900. Most of the meat and produce sold there is organic/Texas produced-catering somewhat to us organic natural types living here. But even the Dollar General, the hardware store, etc are over 5 miles away, as is the nearest ice house/gas station.
I need to have gas in my old 4Runner to even get to any of those places for needed items. That said, I’m sure the chances of survival out here are far, far better than in the city or burbs-where desperate and/or criminal people would be roaming as soon as the food supplies get low...
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