Quotation of the Day…

(Don Boudreaux)

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… is from page 144 of Thomas Sowell’s important 1990 volume, Preferential Policies: An International Perspective:

A wide variety of moral arguments has been used to justify preferential policies for majorities and minorities. Some of these arguments have little in common, except for being largely unexamined in the excitement of crusading zeal – and being politically successful.