DJ Young

“The inordinate love of money, no doubt, may be and is the root of all evil, but money itself, when properly used, is not only a handy thing to have in the house, but affords the gratification of blessing our race by enabling its possessor to enlarge the scope of human happiness and human influence.”
― P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting

“the solution to America’s race problem—a problem analyzed and discussed for decades by armies of sociologists, politicians and activists—is internal, not external. It is inward, not outward; personal, not social; individual, not political.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“Thomas Sowell asserts that by the late 1960’s, black men from families with a library card, magazines and other literature in the home reached high-level occupations as often as white males of similar backgrounds.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“[T]oday some people continue to view themselves as victims because of the historical suffering of their group and because it is easy and comforting to do so. And this renders happiness virtually impossible. First…perceiving yourself as a victim makes you unhappy. Second, it makes you permanently angry, which further guarantees unhappiness. Third, it enables you to avoid confronting whatever it is that is really making you unhappy.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson