Ward Connerly famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Ward Connerly

#College #Race #America
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.
-- Ward Connerly

#Party #Race #Names
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.
-- Ward Connerly

#Past #June #Justice
The Grutter and Gratz decisions, taken together, represent a sad and tragic chapter in American history.
-- Ward Connerly

#Taken #Decision #Together
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.'
-- Ward Connerly

#Race #Government #Dna
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.
-- Ward Connerly

#Believe #Important #Might
Freedom is such a precious commodity. Yet sometimes the freest of people devalue it the most.
-- Ward Connerly

#People #Liberty #Sometimes
Supporting segregation need not be racist. One can believe in segregation and believe in equality of the races.
-- Ward Connerly

#Believe #Race #Needs

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed.
I took acting classes in my senior year in college and I loved it.
I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family out.
During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
America didnâ€™t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
Josh: So, Toby, itâ€™s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.

Ward Connerly famous quotes

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