Shelby Steele

You are, in fact, stigmatized as a racist, because, after all, you have know acknowledged that your nation practiced racism explicitly for…

— Shelby Steele

Freedom is just freedom. It is a condition, not an agent of change. It does not develop or uplift those who win…

— Shelby Steele

Conservatism is the perfect antidote to underdevelopment. Its commitment to individual responsibility, education, hard work, personal initiative, traditional family values and free…

— Shelby Steele

What drew me to conservatism years ago was the fact that it gave discipline a slightly higher status than virtue. This meant…

— Shelby Steele

In looking at difficulties in the black American community over the years, it has always astounded me how much white Americans take…

— Shelby Steele

Even the humble black grandmother, who sings in the church choir and struggles to raise a grandchild abandoned to her care, must…

— Shelby Steele

We have laws on the books. If somebody's discriminating against you, I strongly advocate suing them. That's the most effective thing you…

— Shelby Steele

Deference has been codified in American life as political correctness. And political correctness functions like a despotic regime. It is an oppressiveness…

— Shelby Steele

The great white advantage has been living inside history, adapting to its constant demands, nurturing the values and the habits of life…

— Shelby Steele

Blacks have experienced a history of victimization in America, beginning obviously in slavery and then another 100 years of segregation. I grew…

— Shelby Steele

The Great Society wanted to make America look like a country in which Little Rock could never have happened. It failed because…

— Shelby Steele

But blacks make little to no progress and, worse, the preoccupation with injustice only leaves them eternally inconsolable and cut off from…

— Shelby Steele