Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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 than by his own initiative. Without realizing it, he makes society rather than himself the agent of change. The power he finds in his victimization may lead him to collective action against society, but it also encourages passivity within the sphere of his personal life.

Shelby Steele's Popular Quotes

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 …

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Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

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My experience in life tells me that the values that are now being labeled 'conservative' are the only way that blacks can get ahead.

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A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.

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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…

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The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.

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Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.

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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.

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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