Thomas Sowell

• The cold fact is that income is not distributed: It is earned. — The Vision of the Anointed (p.211)
• Racism is not dead, but it is on life support – kept alive by politicians, race hustlers & people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'.
• If you want to see the poor remain poor, generation after generation, just keep the standards low in their schools & make excuses for their academic shortcomings & personal misbehavior. But please don't congratulate yourself on your compassion.
• Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
• If a public library declines to buy some avant-grade book approved by [the Left], because either the librarian or the tax-paying public do not like it, that is called 'censorship'--even though the book remains freely available to all who wish to buy it. (1995)