Shelby Steele
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"Shelby Steele" is an American author, columnist, documentary film maker, and a Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, specialising in the study of race relations, multiculturalism and affirmative action.

In 1990, he received the National Book Critics Circle Award in the general nonfiction category for his book The Content of Our Character.

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Do not hurt your neighbor, for it is not him you wrong but yourself.

From this point on, the race's advancement will come from the efforts of its individuals.

It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.

A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America.

There are homosexuals in the world, and they should not be excluded based on their sexuality. I draw the line at marriage.

The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.

Freedom always carries the burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves.