When America became stigmatized in the '60s as racist, sexist and militaristic, it wanted moral authority above all else. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Without an ugly America to loathe, there is no automatic esteem to receive. Thus liberalism's unrelenting current of anti-Americanism. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Now, white America is using blacks, exploiting them, enabling their dependency so that they can say, we are innocent of racism, and… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I grew up black in segregated America, where it was hard to find an open door. It's harder now for young blacks… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Our great presidents have been stewards, men who broadly identified with the whole of America. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Freedom in America was not always flat. Racism made it un-flat, so that some people had privileges over other people. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I think to be very blunt about it, in a lot of that support is a desire for convergence of a black… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
No doubt Israel and America have made mistakes in the Middle East. Certainly, Israel was born at the price of considerable dislocation… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Liberal criticism of George W. Bush's minority cabinet and staff selections reveals just how much the left has come to rely on… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
White-on-black shootings evoke America's history of racism and so carry an iconic payload of menace. Black-on-black shootings carry no such payload, although… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I think we have come to a place in black America, sadly from my point of view, where we have once again… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Where race is concerned, America has had a horrible, a wretched history and that came to account in the 1960s, with the… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
In America, many marginally competent or flatly incompetent whites are hired every day -some because their white skin suits the conscious or… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I'm not going to play a racial game. With me, you're going to meet a guy named Shelby Steele, and you will… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Part of our identity is the idea that racism is still there and that we are vulnerable to it. So, the question… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
White America's live under this accusation that they're racist, they need to prove that they're not racist. In order to prove that… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
The Great Society wanted to make America look like a country in which Little Rock could never have happened. It failed because… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Blacks have experienced a history of victimization in America, beginning obviously in slavery and then another 100 years of segregation. I grew… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
America still has a race problem, though not the one that conventional wisdom would suggest: the racism of whites toward blacks. Old… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Conservatism's vulnerability is simply that it has no way to extract power from the evils America owned up to in the '60s… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
If you're getting harassed, it's not helpful to know that racism has generally declined in America, when you're still experiencing it. That… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Since the 1960s, when America finally became fully accountable for its past, deference toward all groups with any claim to past or… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
When blacks become humanly visible, when their true beliefs are known, their mask shatters and their symbiotic bond with whites is broken. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I alienated myself from the academic world almost entirely because it's a left-wing world. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Freedom is just freedom. It is a condition, not an agent of change. It does not develop or uplift those who win it. Freedom… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
In Vietnam, America fought one whose communism was driven by an underlying nationalism, the desire to live free of the West. Whatever one may… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Our great presidents have been stewards, men who broadly identified with the whole of America. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
No doubt Israel and America have made mistakes in the Middle East. Certainly, Israel was born at the price of considerable dislocation and suffering… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
And if you want to make many of our black leaders angry, just tell them that racism is not the number problem that black… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Thomas Sowell, among many others, has articulated the power of individual responsibility as an antidote to black poverty for over 40 years. Black thinkers… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton cannot write a timeless letter to us from a Birmingham jail or walk, as John Lewis did in 1965,… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
My father bought three ramshackle houses, rebuilt them, rented them out, kept clawing his way up the ladder. A man with a third grade… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Whatever I'm doing, I try to write well. I try to give the reader a nice, clean well-written surface, where the writing is transparent.… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
We have laws on the books. If somebody's discriminating against you, I strongly advocate suing them. That's the most effective thing you can do… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
