Thomas Sowell Quotes

The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

People are more afraid of black unity than black rage.

All of you are aware of the tragic history of racism in America, but for a very long time, African-Americans and their white allies came together and they struggled and they stood up for justice and they stood up to lynching and they stood up to segregation and the stood up to a nation where African-Americans couldn't even vote in America.

Has he paid his dues? Is he black enough? John Lewis and I were out there marching and organizing sit-ins back in the '60s so that his children and my children would not have to do it. We would have been failures if had to do the same things we did.

The enemy has always been able to point the finger of suspicion and/or guilt to Black leaders that they are enriching themselves at the expense of the people.

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.

The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.

What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it.

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

What worries me is that 'post-racial' America is not that different from the Americas that have preceded us, and it might not ever be.

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be lied to. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

Little sins are great when great men commit them.

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who will contract out the messy things in life: the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show: and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.

the enemies of the colored race who are opposed to their progress and freedom assert that there is no virtue among them.

We are better off than all the other Black people in the entire world. We are the hope and aspiration of Blacks in the rest of the world.

The Southern Negro is not an incurably ignorant ape. The Southern white masses are not biologically degenerate.

Donald Trump is liar-in-chief.

I stand on the black side of issues, philosophically, politically, socially, and for me to not check that box, I felt like, would be some sort of betrayal of not only who I am but also the community I affiliate with.

I think it's important for black people in general to be aware of what's going on and do what you got to work around it. Not bow down to it publicly.

Quite frankly, black folks have always been at the core of what it's meant to make this nation human.

I mostly like politicians. Very few of them are evil, although quite a lot are delusional.

Usually, 'All Lives Matter' comes as a response to 'Black Lives Matter'; it doesn't exist in a vacuum. So when people say 'Black Lives Matter,' a lot of times the response 'All Lives Matter' can seem very condescending, dismissive to 'Black Lives Matter.'

I like to think my work is furthering black culture by educating and empowering black people.

I wasn't an Uncle Tom and I never was gonna be.