We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and w...hat we take life to be. The question is not what we can do now for the hypothetical Mexican, the hypothetical Negro. The question is what we really want out of life, for ourselves, what we think is real.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is time that we start thinking about foundational issues: about our attitudes toward fair trials... Who are the People in a mul...ticultural society?... The victims of discrimination are now organized. Blacks, Jews, gays, women--they will no longer tolerate second-class status. They seek vindication for past grievances in the trials that take place today, the new political trial.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the m...ajority.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race ...problem.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Niggerization is the result of oppression--and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students ca...n also get niggerized.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally for...med by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion--and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphem...ism. Female conscientiousness and eagerness to please have always made women good students and natural test takers. Jews have gloried in scholarship throughout the ages, and Asians of both sexes score so high on SATs and IQ tests that they regard affirmative action as an impediment. Affirmative action really means favoritism for blacks for the sake of racial peace, but the favor is pure chimera, and so, increasingly, is the peace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »