Bobby J.

“The phrase “white privilege” is not the only verbal sleight of hand used to make achievement differences vanish. Even racial or ethnic groups that arrived in the United States destitute during the nineteenth century, and were forced to live in a desperate poverty and squalor almost inconceivable today, have had their later rise from such dire conditions verbally erased by calling their eventual achievement of prosperity a “privilege.”19 The histories of Irish, Jewish, Chinese and Japanese immigrants in America are classic examples of this process—and of their achievements being verbally air-brushed out of history by simply calling them “privilege.” Even middle-class blacks today have likewise been characterized by some as “privileged,”20 even though their ancestors arrived as slaves.”
― Thomas Sowell, Discrimination and Disparities

“not one portion of the universe of God too minute for His notice, nor too humble for the visitations of His care.”
― William Garden Blaikie, Thomas Chalmers

“Tocqueville understood, as few modern writers do, that pauperism is above all a psychological, not an economic, condition.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture, What's Left Of It

“Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.” —George S. Patton”
― Hourly History, George Patton: A Life From Beginning to End