The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians.
Thomas SowellAll justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?
Thomas SowellNobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
Thomas SowellEven when black youth gangs target white strangers on the streets and spew out racial hatred as they batter them and rob them, mayors, police chiefs and the media tiptoe around their racism and many in the media either don't cover these stories or leave out the race and racism involved.
Thomas SowellThe fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
Thomas SowellThose who automatically say that the social pathology of the ghetto is due to poverty discrimination and the like cannot explain why such pathology was far less prevalent in the 1950s, when poverty and discrimination were worse. But there were not nearly as many grievance mongers and race hustlers then.
Thomas Sowell