The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.
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A Dream Deferred The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in AmericaShelby Steele
A great achievement of modern liberalism -- and a primary reason for its surviving decades past the credibility of its ideas -- is that it captured black resentment as an exclusive source of power. It even gave this resentment a Democratic Party affiliation. (Anti-war sentiment is the other great source of liberal power, but it is not the steady provider that black and minority resentment has been).
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.
Shelby Steele
From this point on, the race's advancement will come from the efforts of its individuals.
Shelby Steele
Do not hurt your neighbor, for it is not him you wrong but yourself.
Shelby Steele
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