Do the Right Thing: The People's Economist SpeaksHoover Press, 2021 M02 1 - 195 pages Walter E. Williams (1936–2020) was the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics and chairman of the economics department at George Mason University, a nationally syndicated columnist, and the author of several books. This thought-provoking book contains nearly one hundred of Williams's most popular essays on race and sex, government, education, environment and health, law and society, international politics, and other controversial topics. |
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Page vii
... moral . Those supporting coercion and control over individuals are immoral . There is nothing strange or unusual about these values ; for the most part , they are articulated by most Americans . Indeed , they are the staple of all ...
... moral . Those supporting coercion and control over individuals are immoral . There is nothing strange or unusual about these values ; for the most part , they are articulated by most Americans . Indeed , they are the staple of all ...
Page ix
... moral sim- ply because of legal sanctions or majority consent . Writing syndicated columns has given me several important ben- efits . First , it has taught me how to translate potentially complex topics in economics in ways the average ...
... moral sim- ply because of legal sanctions or majority consent . Writing syndicated columns has given me several important ben- efits . First , it has taught me how to translate potentially complex topics in economics in ways the average ...
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... ve always had , and still have , racists in America . Fortunately , racists have never been anywhere near a majority . Indeed , it was black people's appeal to the sense of morality and fair play of the nonracist majority Race & Sex 7.
... ve always had , and still have , racists in America . Fortunately , racists have never been anywhere near a majority . Indeed , it was black people's appeal to the sense of morality and fair play of the nonracist majority Race & Sex 7.
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The People's Economist Speaks Walter E. Williams. sense of morality and fair play of the nonracist majority that was ... moral authority . They are little more than race hustlers champi- oning a racial spoils system . They no longer seek ...
The People's Economist Speaks Walter E. Williams. sense of morality and fair play of the nonracist majority that was ... moral authority . They are little more than race hustlers champi- oning a racial spoils system . They no longer seek ...
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... morally rejuvenated tomorrow , it would mean absolutely nothing for blacks who live under the pathological conditions seen in many inner cities . Plus , more money for welfare , poverty , and education programs holds little promise ...
... morally rejuvenated tomorrow , it would mean absolutely nothing for blacks who live under the pathological conditions seen in many inner cities . Plus , more money for welfare , poverty , and education programs holds little promise ...
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Page 76 - The powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the state governments, are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce ; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several states will extend to all the objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives,...
Page 14 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him. captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Page 89 - States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people.
Page 40 - See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
Page 15 - I can only say, that there is not a man living, who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it ; but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by legislative authority ; and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.
Page 41 - I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom. And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.
Page 15 - The contempt we have been taught to entertain for the blacks, makes us fancy many things that are founded neither in reason nor experience; and an unwillingness to part with property of so valuable a kind will furnish a thousand arguments to show the impracticability or pernicious tendency of a scheme which requires such a sacrifice.
Page 53 - ... when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to protect himself against the peace officer's (or other person's) use or attempted use of greater force than necessary.
Page 14 - And when the Almighty shall have blest us, and made us a people dependent only upon him, then may our first gratitude be shown by an act of continental legislation, which shall put a stop to the importation of Negroes for sale, soften the hard fate of those already here, and in time procure their freedom.