Clarence Thomas: Most significantly, there is the backlash against affirmative action by “angry white men.” I do not question a person’s belief that affirmative action is unjust because it judges people based on their sex or the color of their skin. But something far more insidious is afoot. For some white men, preoccupation with oppression has become the defining feature of their existence. They have fallen prey to the very aspects of the modern ideology of victimology that they deplore. —”Victims and Heroes in the ‘Benevolent State,’” Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 19 (Spring 1996)