If you are a minority, it is important that you have legal ways to defend yourself in the society in which you live.
Shelby SteeleSometimes, Barack Obama is Martin Luther King, sometimes, he a black militant from the Sixties, then he's a Baptist minister. He can be so different. There's not yet an Obama voice.
Shelby SteeleMy experience in life tells me that the values that are now being labeled 'conservative' are the only way that blacks can get ahead.
Shelby SteeleBarack Obama and Hillary Clinton, good liberals both, pursued power by offering their candidacies as opportunities for Americans to document their innocence of the nation's past.
Shelby Steele