Representative appearances

• Thomas Sowell: Facts Against Rhetoric, Capitalism, Culture and Yes, the Tariffs | Hoover Institution

  you provide a link to a personal odyssey, which is your own autobiography [COUGH] or memoir. Here you are in a personal odyssey describing your response to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. I'm quoting you, the idea seemed to be that white people's sins were all that stood between us and economic and social parity through American society. The enormous amount of internal change needed within the black community in education, skills and attitudes seemed wholly unnoticed. Civil rights were important in and of themselves as a matter of justice. But to expect civil rights to solve our economic and social problems was barking up the wrong tree, close quote.