David Horowitz Quotes

David Joel Horowitz is an American conservative writer. He is a founder and president of the think tank the David Horowitz Freedom Center ; editor of the Center's publication, FrontPage Magazine; and director of Discover the Networks, a website that tracks individuals and groups on the political left. Horowitz also founded the organization Students for Academic Freedom.

Horowitz wrote several books with author Peter Collier, including four on prominent 20th-century American political families that had members elected to the presidency. He and Collier have collaborated on books about cultural criticism. Horowitz worked as a columnist for Salon. Its then-editor Joan Walsh described him as a "conservative provocateur".From 1956 to 1975, Horowitz was an outspoken adherent of the New Left. He later rejected progressive and Marxist ideas and became a defender of conservativism. Horowitz recounted his ideological journey in a series of retrospective books, culminating with his 1996 memoir Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey.

The Southern Poverty Law Center describes Horowitz as "a driving force of the anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant and anti-black movements". Wikipedia  

✵ 10. January 1939
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Famous David Horowitz Quotes

“In the sociology of the left, including the NAACP, there cannot be a wound the black community inflicts on itself that is not ultimately the responsibility of malicious whites.”

David Horowitz

[David, Horowitz, http://www.salon.com/news/col/horo/1999/08/16/naacp/, Guns don't kill black people, other blacks do, Salon.com, August 16, 1999, 2013-06-21]
1990s

“The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of the Arab Middle East.”

David Horowitz

[David, Horowitz, http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/horowitz.html, "Jaws of Defeat", jewishworldreview.com, July 31, 2006, 2010-01-04]
2006

David Horowitz Quotes about war

David Horowitz Quotes

“If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn't there a black exodus?”

David Horowitz

[David, Horowitz, http://www.salon.com/news/col/horo/1999/08/16/naacp/, Guns don't kill black people, other blacks do, Salon.com, August 16, 1999, 2007-02-17]
1990s

“More than ever before, for humanity to live under capitalism, is to live on borrowed time.”

David Horowitz

from the 1969 book Empire and Revolution.
1960s

“Politics is about winning. If you don’t win, you don’t get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.”

David Horowitz

[David, Horowitz, http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=17895, If You Would Rather Be Right Than President . . . Find Something Else To Do, FrontPageMagazine.com, June 3, 2003, 2016-02-12]
2003

“The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its existence not suggest that economic adversity is the result of failures of individual character rather than the lingering after-effects of racial discrimination and a slave system that ceased to exist well over a century ago?”

David Horowitz

[David, Horowitz, http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1153, Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks is a Bad Idea for Blacks - and Racist Too, FrontPageMagazine.com, January 3, 2001, 2007-02-17]
2001

“They are radical groups who identify with the violent jihad of Islamacist terror organizations like al-Qaeda, Hizbollah, Islamic Jihad and Hamas. And they have the support of a radical culture that regards America as the Great Satan, and Muslims and Arabs as the people whom America oppresses.”

David Horowitz

[David, Horowitz, http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/horowitz.html, "As a former 'Radical,' I see the threat of Militant Islam on our Campuses,", jewishworldreview.com, April 08, 2003, 2010-01-05]
2003

“I have written a book with Jacob Laksin about universities called One Party Classroom.”

David Horowitz

Among other things, the title highlights the fact that so-called liberals have purged American faculties of conservative voices. It has been the most successful witch-hunt in American history.
[David, Horowitz, http://townhall.com/columnists/davidhorowitz/2009/05/04/the_threat_at_home, "The Threat at Home", townhall.com, July 31, 2006, 2014-21-06]
2009

“Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims of the genocidal campaign that white America is waging against them.”

David Horowitz

from the 1999 book Hating Whitey and Other Progressive Causes.
1990s

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