Justice Thomas decries emphasis on grievances, world 'gone mad with political correctness'
Justice Clarence Thomas.
Justice Clarence Thomas told college grads in Michigan on Saturday that modern society emphasizes citizens’ rights rather than duties, “unless of course there’s talk of our duty to submit to yet another new policy being suggested or proposed.”
Speaking at Hillsdale College graduation ceremonies, Thomas emphasized that personal responsibility is tied to the preservation of the U.S. form of government, report the Ann Arbor News, the Detroit News, the Toledo Blade, the College Fix and the Wall Street Journal Law Blog. How Appealing links to the coverage and the video.
“At risk of understating what is necessary to preserve liberty in our form of government, I think more and more it depends on good citizens discharging their daily duties and obligations,” Thomas said. “Sadly, today it seems as though grievances rather than personal conduct are the means of elevation.”
“Hallmarks of my youth such as patriotism and religion seem more like outliers, if not afterthoughts,” Thomas said. “We were taught that despite unfair treatment, we were to be good citizens and good people.”
Thomas advised students that they should not hide their faiths and beliefs, “especially in this world that seems to have gone mad with political correctness.”
Typo in headline corrected at 8:20 a.m.
