Shelby Steele Quotes
- Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.
- Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites that has not…
- Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and whites. And failing…
- Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by changes in society…
- It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.
- Freedom always carries a burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves.
- A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.