One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric …

- Stephen L. Carter

We live today in a world in which nobody believes choices should have consequences. But may I tell you the great secret that our culture seeks to den…

- Stephen L. Carter

Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.

- Stephen L. Carter

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.

- Stephen L. Carter

More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substan…

- Stephen L. Carter

We often ask our citizens to split their public and private selves, telling them in effect that it is fine to be religious in private, but there is s…

- Stephen L. Carter

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

- Stephen L. Carter

True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require o…

- Stephen L. Carter

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

- Stephen L. Carter