Dwayne Roberts

“Contrary to the “myths to live by” created by Alex Haley and others, Africans were by no means the innocents portrayed in Roots, baffled as to why white men were coming in and taking their people away in chains. On the contrary, the region of West Africa from which Kunte Kinte supposedly came was one of the great slave-trading regions of the continent—before, during, and after the white man arrived. It was the Africans who enslaved their fellow Africans, selling some of these slaves to Europeans or to Arabs and keeping others for themselves. Even at the peak of the Atlantic slave trade, Africans retained more slaves for themselves than they sent to the Western Hemisphere.”
― Thomas Sowell

“We've wandered a long way from the Founders' vision. The intellectual turning point was the complete obliteration of the concept "rights" during the twentieth century, when individual rights were "supplemented" with collective "rights" and from when rights went from protecting a man's freedom of action to guaranteeing him certain outcomes (so-called welfare rights).
— Free Market Revolution”
― Don Watkins, Yaron Brook

“Everyone has what I call the phantom vita: prizes not won, jobs applied for but not offered, unrequited love. So what? If you miss a bus, you can get on the next one. We should not overly lament life’s ordinary disappointments, but we must celebrate—soberly, not giddily or smugly—its ordinary pleasures.”
― Willard Spiegelman, Seven Pleasures: Essays on Ordinary Happiness

“[Capitalism's] critics argue on moral grounds; the supporters on economic grounds. The critics, wedded to a moral code of self-sacrifice, are oblivious to capitalism's practical success. The supporters, equally wedded to such a code, are morally disarmed against the onslaught of their antagonists — and are reduced to the citation of empirical facts and figures. The supporters, unable to break free of the conventional creed urging selflessness, have too often regarded capitalism's inherent pursuit of self-interest as a guilty secret, akin to an unsavory skeleton in a family closet.”
― Andrew Bernstein, The Capitalist Manifesto