Thomas Sowell Quotes

Equality ... is the result of human organization.... We are not born equal.

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

Why did the world ever become so unequal?

The defeats and victories for the people at the top aren't defeats and victories for the people at the bottom.

Opportunity seems to be color-coded here in America

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

An elite has prospered with our kinds of institutions, but the same cannot be said of the masses.

Tackling inequality isn’t easy. It never has been and it never will be.

You are exacerbating inequality rather than opening up opportunity.

We cannot rebuild the American Dream here at home by catering to the voices of the privileged and powerful.

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.

It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.

Keeping people on the margins of cultural, social and political life constitutes in many nations one of the most glaring injustices of our time.

The prime culprit in causing contemporary social inequality seems to be merit.

I am no leveller; I look upon an artificial equality as equally pernicious with a factitious aristocracy; both depressing the energies and checking the enterprise of a nation.

To ignore race and sex is racist and sexist.

Those who are privileged have little regard for history.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

The economic and technical capabilities of the established societies are sufficiently vast to allow for adjustments and concessions to the underdog.