My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.

Thomas denied the allegations saying:

Hill was the only person to testify at the Senate hearings that there had been unsolicited sexual advances. From 1981 to 1982 he served as Assistant Secretary of Education for the Office for Civil Rights in the U. S.

Clarence Thomas (born June 23 1948) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. On July 1 1991 after 16 months of service as a judge Thomas was nominated by Bush to fill Marshall's seat on the United States Supreme Court. In 1974 he was appointed an Assistant Attorney General in Missouri and subsequently practiced law there in the private sector.