CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY DECEMBER 8, 2020
WALTER WILLIAMS, WHO DIED LAST WEEK, WAS NOT ONLY A BLACK MAN, BUT A COLLEGE PROFESSOR AND ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONSERVATIVE.
HERE ARE A FEW OF HIS GREATEST QUOTES:
ON SOCIAL JUSTICE: “I KEEP WHAT I EARN AND YOU KEEP WHAT YOU EARN. DO YOU DISAGREE? THEN TELL ME HOW MUCH OF WHAT I EARN BELONGS TO YOU – AND WHY?”
HERE’S ANOTHER: “HOW DOES SOMETHING IMMORAL WHEN DONE PRIVATELY, BECOME MORAL WHEN DONE COLLECTIVELY? FURTHERMORE, DOES LEGALITY ESTABLISH MORALITY? SLAVERY WAS LEGAL; APARTHEID IS LEGAL; STALINIST, NAZI AND MAOIST PURGES WERE LEGAL. CLEARLY, THE FACT OF LEGALITY DOES NOT JUSTIFY THESE CRIMES. LEGALITY, ALONE, CANNOT BE THE TALISMAN OF MORAL PEOPLE.”
AND ANOTHER: “DEMOCRACY AND LIBERTY ARE NOT THE SAME. DEMOCRACY IS LITTLE MORE THAN MOB RULE, WHILE LIBERTY REFERS TO THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL.”
ONE MORE: “PRIOR TO CAPITALISM, THE WAY PEOPLE ASSESSED GREAT WEALTH WAS BY LOOTING, PLUNDERING AND ENSLAVING THEIR FELLOW MAN. CAPITALISM MADE IT POSSIBLE TO BECOME WEALTHY BY SERVING YOUR FELLOW MAN.”
THE GREAT WALTER WILLIAMS. MAY BE REST IN PEACE. I’M CAL THOMAS.
