Shelby Steele Quotes & Sayings

Top 6 Shelby Steele Quotes

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

#2. 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.

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

#4. Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.

#5. A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.

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