'Do not hide your faith and your beliefs': Justice Thomas warns against political correctness.

'In addressing your own obligations and responsibilities in the right way, you actually help to ensure our liberty and our form of government.'

In today's world of political correctness, specific rights for every individual sect and the gradual push to ban what is viewed as discriminating religious viewpoints, it is important to remember what God planned for our lives and what we are meant to do on earth.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas delivered a commencement speech at Hillsdale College, a smaller Michigan liberal arts college.

Justice Thomas spoke to the recent college graduates to explain: "At the risk of understating what is necessary to preserve liberty in our form of government, I think more and more that it depends on good citizens, discharging their daily duties in their daily obligations."

He spoke of today's society and its many viewpoints on education at the college and university level. What Justice Thomas claims to be happening in these higher levels of education is a push to lead people to feel a sense of pride in "grievances rather than personal conduct" and individual citizen rights trump general responsibility.

Speaking of his day, Justice Thomas explained, "Hallmarks of my youth such as patriotism and religion seem more like outliers, if not afterthoughts."

The Justice focused on religion for a moment to offer a piece of advice to the graduates: "Do not hide your faith and your beliefs under a bushel basket, especially in this world that seems to have gone mad with political correctness.

"I resist what seems to be some formulaic or standard fare at commencement exercises, some broad complaint about societal injustice and at least one exhortation to the young graduates to go out and solve the stated problem or otherwise to change the world.

"Having been where you are, I think it is hard enough for you to solve your own problems, not to mention those problems that often seem to defy solution. In addressing your own obligations and responsibilities in the right way, you actually help to ensure our liberty and our form of government."

Justice Thomas continued, speaking of his grandfather's lesson to revere "duty, honor [and] country," despite being raised in the days of racial segregation.

Of his grandfather, Justice Thomas explained: "He knew that though not nearly perfect, our constitutional ideals were perfectible if we worked to protect them rather than to undermine them. Don't discard that which is precious along with that which is tainted."

The Supreme Court Justice called for the graduates to thank their families and teachers as "these are the people who have shown you how to sacrifice for those they love, even when that sacrifice is not always appreciated."

He asked the grads to be kind, particularly to those in need, and concluded, "As you go through life, try to be that person whose actions teach others how to be better people and better citizens."

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