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Hatred is a transformative power. It can make the innocuous into the menacing. So it has become a weapon of choice.

— Shelby Steele

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In the end, black power can claim no higher moral standing than white power. [...] No power can long insist on itself without evoking an opposing power.

The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America (1991)

For many on the left a hateful anti-Americanism has become a self-congratulatory lifestyle.

Why the Left is Consumed with Hate (2018)

[T]hough fear always seeks a thousand justifications, none is ever good enough, and the problems we run from only remain to haunt us.

The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America (1991)

The great ingenuity of interventions like affirmative action has not been that they give Americans a way to identify with the struggle of blacks, but that they give them a way to identify with racial virtuousness quite apart from blacks.

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The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

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I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

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