In talking with affirmative-action administrators and with blacks and whites in general, I found that supporters of affirmative action focus on its good intentions and detractors emphasize its negative effects. It was virtually impossible to find people outside either camp. — 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
I alienated myself from the academic world almost entirely because it's a left-wing world. — Shelby Steele Copy Share
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
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
Our great presidents have been stewards, men who broadly identified with the whole of America. — Shelby Steele Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The first thing I ever heard about Barack Obama was that he had a white mother and a black father. Interestingly, the person who… — Shelby Steele Copy Share
Racism is endemic to the human condition, just as stupidity is. We will always have to be on guard against it. But now it… — Shelby Steele Copy Share
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
