From Rage to Responsibility Quotes

“Since neither black animosity nor the Left’s falsehood of “racial tensions” is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America can do will affect the perceptions of many black Americans or of the leftist libel.”
― Dennis Prager, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today

“Gratefulness for being an American will give calm and peace to anyone. Our good fortune to be born on this soil, or to have emigrated here, is something we should regularly dwell on, and openly thank God for.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“the solution to America’s race problem—a problem analyzed and discussed for decades by armies of sociologists, politicians and activists—is internal, not external. It is inward, not outward; personal, not social; individual, not political.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“the solution to America’s race problem—a problem analyzed and discussed for decades by armies of sociologists, politicians and activists—is internal, not external.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“Much of black leadership would rather deny racial progress than claim credit for it, apparently finding more political power in highlighting problems rather than in solving them.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“Thomas Sowell asserts that by the late 1960’s, black men from families with a library card, magazines and other literature in the home reached high-level occupations as often as white males of similar backgrounds.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“[T]oday some people continue to view themselves as victims because of the historical suffering of their group and because it is easy and comforting to do so. And this renders happiness virtually impossible. First…perceiving yourself as a victim makes you unhappy. Second, it makes you permanently angry, which further guarantees unhappiness. Third, it enables you to avoid confronting whatever it is that is really making you unhappy.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“once people believe racism is their main problem, they become subject to that idea, and it prevents them from progressing.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“Black women are three times more likely than white women to have an abortion.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“The effect? A remarkably disproportionate number of black babies are aborted. The abortion rate per 1000 women for whites is 18, for blacks 54, and for others 38.46”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“The undiscussed truth is that Planned Parenthood still operates in line with these ideas today. Planned Parenthood clinics—and abortion clinics generally—are frequently located in inner city areas where they can prey on poor minority women, and receive public funds for doing so.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“In Sanger’s view, “Negroes and southern Europeans,” as she put it, were simply “mentally inferior to native born Americans,” and minorities in general—including Jewish people—were “feeble minded,” “human weeds,” and “a menace to society.”43 “Blacks.…are a menace to the race,” she once wrote.44 To Sanger, the poor were simply irresponsible and stupid.45 Therefore, she thought, efforts by society should be made to insure that, by means of birth control and abortion, the poor have fewer children.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“Abortion was seen by her as a way of “improving” the population. She did not intend its widespread use among whites, and is famous for her slogan “More [children] from the fit, and less from the unfit.” Who are the unfit? The black poor.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“The great irony, rarely recognized, is that abortion in America was initially conceived and advocated for the purpose of reducing the black population. Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood and one of the champions of the abortion rights movement, was an unapologetic eugenicist and a racist, and wanted minorities and the poor to have abortions.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“But, in fact, because of so many black peoples’ unthinking allegiance to the Democratic Party (which is absolutist on abortion and does not permit serious expressions of pro-life sentiment), black people fail to recognize the clear similarity between their history and the plight of the pre-born today, and are some of the most ardent supporters of abortion on demand.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“Black conservative Peter Kirsanow has noted the striking parallels between the way blacks were treated under slavery, and the way the pre-born are today. He writes, The primary tactic in the systematic abuse of any class of people is to dehumanize them. Thus, it cannot be admitted that the unborn child is a person, and it cannot be granted that the unborn child has inalienable rights, including the right to life. A concession that the unborn child is a person would destroy the psychology of denial that makes the decision to abort easier. The identical constructs were used to support slavery. Every attempt was made to deny that blacks were fully human. They didn’t look like “us,” so they must not be “us.” Their humanity could not be allowed to become a public reality. Masters in some colonies were even prohibited from freeing slaves, since to do so might suggest a moral problem with slavery, and somehow communicate the humanity of the enslaved.42”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“As Michael Bauman of Hillsdale College frankly comments: We hide the fetal holocaust that surrounds us every day just as effectively as the Nazis hid their extermination of the Jews. And we do it the same way. We cannot bring ourselves to utter the “M” word, though we commit the “M” act. That is, we do not murder unborn children, we “abort fetuses”…. Some of the more squeamish among us are unable even to say the “A” word. Though by aborting fetuses rather than murdering babies our linguistic sleight of hand has hidden the real nature of our action (murder) and the real identity of our victim (baby), some people require a still heavier dose of verbal opium. We must tell them they are merely “terminating a pregnancy,” which eliminates overt reference to any living thing…. If “terminating pregnancies” is still too overt a verbal description because the word pregnant tends to evoke unfortunate images of happy women large with child, we can hide the crime behind an even more impersonal wall of words. We can say that the murdering of unborn children is nothing more than the voluntary extraction of the “product of conception,” or, as nearly all abortion clinics have it, “removing the POC.” What could be more innocent.20”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“It is disingenuous to claim that a fetus is not a definite, living human being. Those who have seen ultrasound images of pre-born babies have eyewitness, empirical evidence of the unborns’ living humanity.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“The logic against them could not be more elementary. First, the unborn entity is an actual being, it is alive. If this were not so, there would be no need for an abortion. The very purpose of the abortion is to kill that which is alive. Second, this being is human. What else could it be? Feline? Canine? Bovine? As Congressman Henry Hyde once quipped, “No woman has ever given birth to a Golden Retriever.” Human beings give birth to human beings.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“It is one of the great ironies of our time that those who pass for “black leaders” are so vocal about every perceived racial slight, and yet are not only silent—but even supportive—of the most overt and destructive attack on black Americans: abortion on demand.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“The truly masculine man is one who loves what is right. The masculine man loves truth more than anything else. He is not ego-driven, he is driven by what is right. He is not ruled by his desire for sex, but he is ruled by his desire to honor God. He looks to God to guide him, and to the true knowledge he has about himself. He does not rely on women for approval and satisfaction.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“But when you see yourself as an individual first, you are freed to think for yourself, and you become internally self-sufficient. You start to break free from the bonds of racial conformity, and you start to see the good and bad in everyone, irrespective of their color. You start to be less angry, and as you let go of anger you are empowered to love God, your family, and your country.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“But most blacks are prevented from this self-examination and self-criticism, because they don’t think for themselves as individuals first; they instead willingly accept the opinions they know they are supposed to have as racial victims. They embrace the attitudes cued to them by black politicians and racial professionals.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“New York state senator David Paterson pointed out the fruitlessness of Khalid Muhammad’s hate: “How does denying that there was a Holocaust get black kids job opportunities? How does advocating the killing of South African whites help black kids to get an education?”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“The truth is, as an adult, I’ve experienced more racism from other black people than I have from white people. I’ve been hated because, as a black man, I love America, and am reluctant to criticize it. Since blacks are taught by their leaders and communities to hate whites and be angry at the United States, anything except the typical condemnations of whites and this country is offensive to them.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“Why then does the civil rights establishment avoid addressing the real problems causing black suffering? Because deep down, they are more angry at white people than they are in love with black people.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“So the hypocrisy of conventional black leadership comes into clear focus. While they close their eyes to black progress, they will cry “Racism!”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“As William Raspberrry put it, “Much of black leadership would rather deny racial progress than claim credit for it, apparently finding more political power in highlighting problems rather than in solving them.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“Oh yes, it exists, and the news media is always quick to highlight examples of anti-black racial hostility, but it is not the all-powerful, institutional beast so many say it is. But once people believe racism is their main problem, they become subject to that idea, and it prevents them from progressing.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson

“But the politically-incorrect truth is that racism today is a state of mind, more than a social reality.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson