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You might think that the collapse of communism throughout Eastern Europe would be considered a decisive failure for Marxism but academic Marxists in America are utterly undaunted. Their paychecks and their tenure are unaffected. Their theories continue to flourish in classrooms.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) July 9, 2020

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With all the pious talk about "tolerance" in the media and in academia, there is virtually none for those who challenge the dogmas of political correctness in most of our colleges and universities.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) July 10, 2020

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The word "racism" is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything — and demanding evidence makes you a "racist."

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) July 11, 2020

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Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has if you count the tail as a leg. When they answered “five,” Lincoln told them that the answer was four. The fact that you called the tail a leg did not make it a leg.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) July 7, 2020

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Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, “social justice."

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) July 5, 2020

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What "multiculturalism" boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture—and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) July 6, 2020

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Equal opportunity policies are against racism. Affirmative action is racism under new management.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) July 1, 2020

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The totalitarian mindset behind the liberal vision shows through in innumerable ways. There are no institutions in America where free speech is more severely restricted than in our politically correct colleges and universities, dominated by liberals.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) July 2, 2020

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Anyone who wants reparations based on history will have to gerrymander history very carefully. Otherwise, practically everybody would owe reparations to practically everybody else.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) July 2, 2020

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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) June 29, 2020

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It is self-destructive for any society to create a situation where a baby who is born into the world today automatically has pre-existing grievances against another baby born at the same time, because of what their ancestors did centuries ago.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) June 29, 2020

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Some people seem to think that the answer to all of life's imperfections is to create a government agency to correct them. If that is your approach, then go straight to totalitarianism. Do not pass "Go." Do not collect $200.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) June 26, 2020

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Our children and grandchildren may yet curse the day we began hyping race and ethnicity. There are countries where that has led to slaughters in the streets but you cannot name a country where it has led to greater harmony.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) June 25, 2020

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Many of the words and phrases used in the media and among academics suggest that things simply happen to people, rather than being caused by their own choices or behavior.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) June 25, 2020

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Historians of the future will have a hard time figuring out how so many organized groups of strident jackasses succeeded in leading us around by the nose and morally intimidating the majority into silence.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) June 22, 2020

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The last person to trust with power is someone who is dying to have it. The best person to wield power is someone who is reluctant to do so, but who will do it for a while as a civic duty. That is why term limits should make it impossible to have a whole career in politics.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) June 22, 2020

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The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) June 20, 2020

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There have always been ignorant people, but they haven't always had college degrees to make them unaware of their ignorance. Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) June 18, 2020

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If you want to see the poor remain poor, generation after generation, just keep the standards low in their schools and make excuses for their academic shortcomings and personal misbehavior. But please don't congratulate yourself on your compassion.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) June 17, 2020

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Emotions neither prove nor disprove facts. There was a time when any rational adult understood this. But years of dumbed-down education and emphasis on how people “feel” have left too many people unable to see through this media gimmick.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) June 17, 2020