If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When I was teaching at an institution that bent over backward for foreign students, I was asked in class one day: "What… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks.… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Those who automatically say that the social pathology of the ghetto is due to poverty discrimination and the like cannot explain why… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“However much history may be invoked in support of these policies (affirmative action), no policy can apply to history but can only… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Even when black youth gangs target white strangers on the streets and spew out racial hatred as they batter them and rob… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.' — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We know - or should know - what lies at the end of the road of racial polarization. A 'race card' is… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“The reality of an historic struggle for civil rights has degenerated into the hustling rhetoric of Newspeak. “Equal opportunity” now means preferential… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I'm so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Although much of the media have their antennae out to pick up anything that might be construed as racism against blacks, they… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“In 1962, Democratic President John F. Kennedy, like both Democratic and Republican Presidents and Secretaries of the Treasury in earlier years, pointed out that “it… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Just as price fluctuations allocate scarce resources which have alternative uses, price controls which limit those fluctuations reduce the incentives for individuals to limit… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
