Character Quote by Shelby Steele

When blacks become humanly visible, when their true beliefs are known, their mask shatters and their symbiotic bond with whites is broken.

— Shelby Steele

I alienated myself from the academic world almost entirely because it's a left-wing world.

— Shelby Steele

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

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

Our great presidents have been stewards, men who broadly identified with the whole of America.

— Shelby Steele

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

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

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

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

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

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

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