Category: economist
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The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.
Thomas Sowell
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The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
Thomas Sowell
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The word ‘racism’ is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything – and demanding evidence makes you a ‘racist.’
Thomas Sowell
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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
John Maynard Keynes
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Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.
Thomas Sowell
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In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.
Thomas Sowell
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The real minimum wage is zero.
Thomas Sowell
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.
Thomas Sowell
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As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking – or lack of thinking.
Thomas Sowell
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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
John Maynard Keynes