Quote from J. Tucker Alford, |
"It is precisely this clinging to victimhood as a means of demonstrating one’s virtue and advancing one’s well-being that has led us into a society in which welfare and quotas are “civil rights,” government handouts are “entitlements,” and payment to girls having babies out of wedlock are “compassionate,” while hard-working, ambitious people are “greedy,” punishment of crime is “oppression,” and an independent thinker who stands for courage and self-reliance is dismissed as an “Uncle Tom.”"
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J. Tucker Alford (more quotes by J. Tucker Alford or books by/about J. Tucker Alford) |
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Heroics, letter to The American Spectator, p. 72, February, 1996. |
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Courage, Crime, Punishment, Redistribution, Responsibility, Self-Reliance, Society, Virtue, Welfare |
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