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Thomas Sowell explains the difference between a black redneck and a white redneck.
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"There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs." — Thomas Sowell
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“The intentions behind welfare programs, for example, may be noble. But in practice they have slowed the self-development that proved necessary for other groups to advance.” — Jason L. Riley
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"Egalitarians never seem to understand that promoting economic equality in theory means promoting resentments and polarization in practice, making everyone worse off." — Thomas Sowell
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“The black homicide rate is seven times that of whites, and the George Zimmermans of the world are not the reason. Some 90 percent of black murder victims are killed by other blacks. Why should we care more about black criminals than their black victims?” — Jason L. Riley
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Thomas Sowell explains how the welfare state reshaped and destabilized black families.
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“I cannot understand people who say that minorities should be represented everywhere and yet are upset when there are blacks represented in the conservative movement.” — Thomas Sowell
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“All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.” — Friedrich Hayek
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“Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and naziism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.” — Friedrich Hayek
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"Advocates of diversity in a race or gender sense are often quite hostile to ideological diversity, when it includes traditional or 'conservative' values and beliefs." — Thomas Sowell
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“How much of a barrier to self-improvement is discrimination? What kinds of tools are in the ready grasp of those subjected to it? Surely one doesn't want to sit around waiting for the end to discrimination.” — Walter E. Williams
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They call it “progress,” but under Thomas Sowell-style thinking, the only thing growing is government size, power, and cost.
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"Egalitarians never seem to understand that promoting economic equality in theory means promoting resentments and polarization in practice, making everyone worse off." — Thomas Sowell
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