Shelby Steele Quotes (9 Quotes)

From this point on, the race's advancement will come from the efforts of its individuals.

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).

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

There are homosexuals in the world, and they should not be excluded based on their sexuality. I draw the line at marriage.

Freedom always carries a burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves.

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

A Dream Deferred The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America

Do not hurt your neighbor, for it is not him you wrong but yourself.

. . . 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.