Ward Connerly Quotes

• If I have learned one thing from life, it is that race is the engine that drives the political Left. When all else fails, that segment of America goes to the default position of using race to achieve its objectives. In the courtrooms, on college campuses, and, most especially, in our politics, race is a central theme. Where it does not naturally rise to the surface, there are those who will manufacture and amplify it.

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  College, America, Race

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• Freedom is such a precious commodity. Yet sometimes the freest of people devalue it the most.

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  People, Liberty, Sometimes

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• Supporting segregation need not be racist. One can believe in segregation and believe in equality of the races.

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  Believe, Race, Needs

  "CNN Wolf Blitzer Reports", www.cnn.com. December 13, 2002.

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• I would contend that we place no other value above the right to be free. We will die for our freedom. In fact, we believe freedom is sufficiently important that we will even die so that others around the globe might be free.

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  Believe, Important, Might

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• Let it be said that when given a chance to complete the liberation of black Americans, on June 23, 2003 five justices consigned them to another generation - or, perhaps, a term of indefinite duration - of virtual enslavement to the past.

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  Past, June, Justice

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• Recent events in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reaffirmed for me, however, the complete folly of any Republican strategy to increase black representation in the Republican Party by appeals based on race. Whatever the name- 'African American Outreach' or 'Black Republicans for Bush'- any effort to attract blacks or any other ethnic group to the Republican party, based on explicit or implicit appeals to race or ethnic identity, are not only a waste of time and resources, but are also misguided and potentially quite damaging to the nation.

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  Party, Names, Race

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• Passionate ideological opposition to race preferences does not seem to be part of the Bush DNA, and President Bush has been no exception to this rule . . . It is not the legitimate business of government in America to promote 'diversity.'

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  America, Race, Government

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• The Grutter and Gratz decisions, taken together, represent a sad and tragic chapter in American history.

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  Taken, Decision, Together

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