Let me be fair and give you the complete context of that statement in Clarence Thomas' dissent in
Obergefell v. Hodges:
In dissent, Thomas argued that "human dignity cannot be taken away by the government. Slaves did not lose their dignity (any more than they lost their humanity) because the government allowed them to be enslaved. Those held in internment camps did not lose their dignity because the government confined them. And those denied governmental benefits certainly do not lose their dignity because the government denies them those benefits. The government cannot bestow dignity, and it cannot take it away."
This was written by a sitting an African American Supreme Court Justice(?) in the second decade of the 21st century!!
How disconnected from reality can a human being be?
Of all the sins of the Democratic Party, this has been the most damaging. By refusing to filibuster this man, as they did Robert Bork
(Correction, Bork was voted down in the senate. Thomas should have been voted down as well but 11 Democrats defected and voted to confirm), they sowed the seeds of the loss of the 2000 election, the elevation of corporations to personhood, the destruction of the Voting Rights Act, and numerous other erosions of justice and liberty.
Thomas is the personification of Judge Narragansett from Ayn Rand's
Atlas Shrugged, to such and extant that Rand is probably writhing in her grave in orgasmic ecstasy.
Try to remember that this man replaced Thurgood Marshall