{"id":655611,"date":"2026-08-21T15:51:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T15:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=655611"},"modified":"2026-08-21T15:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T15:51:59","slug":"national-treasure-justice-clarence-thomas-chokes-up-sharing-personal-memory-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=655611","title":{"rendered":"\u2018National Treasure!\u2019 Justice Clarence Thomas chokes up sharing personal memory"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas became emotional as he shared a memory in a discussion with Hoover Institution fellow Peter Robinson.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe decision I made was to live the rest of my life as a memorial to theirs,\u201d Thomas said of his grandparents who raised him and died suddenly in 1983.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the point I\u2019m going to make is that is the way I feel about Professor [Thomas] Sowell,\u201d Thomas continued after a brief pause to gather his composure.<\/p>\n

The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the legacy of conservative author, economist, and social theorist Thomas Sowell. But the high court justice has a storied and inspiring past of his own, which also became a topic of discussion.<\/p>\n

Thomas recalled what his grandfather would say to him when he complained as a child.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy grandfather, I remember him often saying \u2026 his favorite saying was, \u2018Old man can\u2019t is dead. I helped bury him.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy grandfather, no education, raised by a freed slave, and he never complained,\u201d Thomas continued. \u201cHe did it. He was a \u2014 he was just a great man. Now what do you do? How do you complain when he had nothing, no education? What do you say to it? But he sets this example of how you live your life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thomas credited Sowell for echoing the principles his grandparents instilled in him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I think it\u2019s something that Professor Sowell has been trying to stress, that a lot of the groundwork to being able to do difficult things, to achieve, are attitudes. And he talks about other groups,\u201d Thomas said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that\u2019s what attracted me initially to \u2018Race and Economics,\u2019 because if you go back and you look at \u2018Race and Economics,\u2019 he talks about attitude of self-reliance, of self-discipline, etc., how important those were.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere did I first hear that? I heard it from my grandfather, the single greatest man I\u2019ve ever known, my grandmother, a saintly woman, my nuns. Same thing. It\u2019s the exact same thing,\u201d Thomas said.<\/p>\n

Fox News shared a clip of the emotional moment on X where Thomas received plenty of praise for rising above his circumstances without complaint:<\/p>\n

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Justice Clarence Thomas choked up on stage as he revealed the vow he made when both his grandparents died suddenly in 1983: to live the rest of his life as a memorial to theirs.<\/p>\n

Thomas, abandoned by his father at age seven, was raised by his maternal grandparents in segregated\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/1je1DCeSaR<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) August 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The life of Clarence Thomas is one of the greatest American success stories of all time. Everyone, all colors and creeds should celebrate him and be greatful that we have him. I am.<\/p>\n

\u2014 DrT1250 (@DrT1250) August 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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It\u2019s funny how Clarence Thomas has like the perfect inspirational Hollywood black guy who succeeded against all odds story but he\u2019s got the wrong politics so they won\u2019t touch it<\/p>\n

\u2014 HowlingMutant (@Howlingmutant0) August 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This man has the most incredible, inspiring back story. If you\u2019re ever in Savannah, take the time to visit the Pin Point Heritage Museum on the Moon River, to see where he was born and raised.<\/p>\n

Clarence Thomas is the epitome of the American Dream.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Lisa Clark O\u2019Neill (@LisaClarkONeill) August 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Supreme Court Clarence Thomas is a National Treasure
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\u2014 Southern \u201cBelle\u201d (@patlicata) August 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He truly is.<\/p>\n

You can watch the full discussion below:<\/p>\n\n

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas became emotional as he shared a memory in a discussion with Hoover Institution fellow Peter Robinson. \u201cThe decision I made was to live the rest of my life as a memorial to theirs,\u201d Thomas said of his grandparents who raised him and died suddenly in 1983. \u201cAnd the point I\u2019m… Continue reading \u2018National Treasure!\u2019 Justice Clarence Thomas chokes up sharing personal memory<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":655586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=655611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/655586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=655611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=655611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=655611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}