Thomas Sowell, among many others, has articulated the power of individual responsibility as an antidote to black poverty for over 40 years.… — 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
Emmitt Till had walked into a cultural narrative in which his role was already tragically written. It was a narrative designed to… — 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
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
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
The Achilles' heel of the left has been its dependence on menace for power. Think of all the things it can ask… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Hatred is a transformative power. It can make the innocuous into the menacing. — 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
