No matter how accomplished we may be, just any little white person can come up and say, 'Well, you wouldn't be here, if it weren't for Affirmative Action.' You put power in white people's hands, and then they use it against you. It's a trick bag.
Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before. - Shelby Steele
Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.
- Shelby Steele
I decided to live as an individual and as I grew older, and thought more, and read more and experienced more, my views became more conservative. But … - Shelby Steele
I decided to live as an individual and as I grew older, and thought more, and read more and experienced more, my views became more conservative. But …
My experience in life tells me that the values that are now being labeled 'conservative' are the only way that blacks can get ahead. - Shelby Steele
My experience in life tells me that the values that are now being labeled 'conservative' are the only way that blacks can get ahead.
A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate. - Shelby Steele
A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.
Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites that has no… - Shelby Steele
Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites that has no…
Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children. - Shelby Steele
Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.
The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance. - Shelby Steele
The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.
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. - Shelby Steele
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.
Barack Obama's strategy is to get away from anything having to do with race as quickly as he can. His fear is that that might open a Pandora's Box. - Shelby Steele
Barack Obama's strategy is to get away from anything having to do with race as quickly as he can. His fear is that that might open a Pandora's Box.
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