Republicans passed the Fourteenth Amendment, securing for blacks equal rights under the law, and the Fifteenth Amendment, giving blacks the right to vote, over the Democrats' opposition. Dinesh D'Souza More Quotes by Dinesh D'Souza More Quotes From Dinesh D'Souza Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion. Dinesh D'Souza elements government coercion With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future. Dinesh D'Souza progress get-better ideas In the Sixties, there was a big resistance to the Vietnam War. People began reinterpreting all American history as a series of misadventures and crimes and oppressions visited upon the innocent, the poor, the defenseless, the minorities, and so on. This created a new narrative in America. Let's call it, "America the inexcusable." And this narrative has been drummed into the minds of our young people. A whole generation of Americans has been taught that theirs is a bad country. And it's then very difficult for them to figure out how one can one be a good citizen in a bad country. Dinesh D'Souza war country people Today courts wrongly interpret separation of church and state to mean that religion has no place in the public arena, or that morality derived from religion should not be permitted to shape our laws. Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression. Secularists want to empty the public square of religion and religious-based morality so they can monopolize the shared space of society with their own views. In the process they have made religious believers into second-class citizens. Dinesh D'Souza space religious mean I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign. Dinesh D'Souza accents wife While profit remains the final goal, entrepreneurs spend the better part of each day figuring out how better to serve the needs of their actual and potential customers. They are operationally, if not intentionally, altruistic. Dinesh D'Souza entrepreneur finals goal What Obama is about, in my opinion, is he is a Global redistributionist. He's pursuing reparations but it's not racial reparations. It's global reparations for the sins and conquest of colonism. Dinesh D'Souza conquest opinion sin There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the years has ever killed again. Dinesh D'Souza death-penalty criminals years Barack Obama's policies can be summarized as omnipotence at home, impotence abroad. So, the federal government is expanding its powers at home over the private sector and over the lives of ordinary citizens. Abroad, Obama's working to undermine America's influence and power. If someone is trying to shrink America's influence, it doesn't necessarily mean you have to do it by doing nothing. You can also be vigorous like Obama who has been very active to achieve what has really been his consistent objective. Dinesh D'Souza home trying mean Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history. Dinesh D'Souza murder atheism real Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice. Dinesh D'Souza life-after-death elephants rooms Death is the great wrecking ball that destroys everything. Everything that we have done, everything that we are doing now, and all our plans for the future are completely and irrevocably destroyed when we die. Only teenagers live in that state of temporary insanity when they believe themselves immune from death. Dinesh D'Souza temporary-insanity teenager believe C.S. Lewis said that conscience is nothing more than the voice of God within our souls; the bridge that links the creature to the creator Dinesh D'Souza voice soul bridges The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong—it is obscene. Dinesh D'Souza empires evil america The issue of religious liberty is absolutely critical. America was founded on three different types of liberty: political liberty, economic liberty, and religious and civil liberty. It's remarkable that, one-by-one, these strands of liberty are coming under fierce attack from the Left. And that's particularly ironic because "liberal" derives from a word which means "liberty," the free man as opposed to the slave. This liberalism which we're saddled with today isn't a real liberalism at all, but a gangster style of politics masquerading as liberalism. Dinesh D'Souza real religious mean There is a real hunger for information about Obama and a sense that information is not being covered or, in some cases, even being withheld. There is a sense that there are elements of the media that are protective of Obama, that they would rather block a story that is embarassing about Obama than let the American public decide. Dinesh D'Souza block media real In reality, at the end of World War II, America imposed democracy at the point of a bayonet on Japan and Germany, and it has proved a resounding success in both countries. The problem with liberals is that they never give bayonets a chance. Dinesh D'Souza war country reality Barack Obama II is born in the Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu. His birth is recorded in two local newspapers. Dinesh D'Souza medical birth two America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human being—confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-oriented—is a vast improvement over the wretched, servile, fatalistic and intolerant human being that traditional societies have always produced. Dinesh D'Souza improvement self america Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency. Dinesh D'Souza strong lying people
