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Quotes from All It Takes is Guts: A Minority View — Walter E. Williams

1936–2020 United States

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How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively?

All It Takes is Guts: A Minority View (1987)

Let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?

All It Takes is Guts: A Minority View (1987)

[D]oes legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does not justify these crimes.

All It Takes is Guts: A Minority View (1987)

But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?

All It Takes is Guts: A Minority View (1987)

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