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“Racism originated not in ignorance and fear but as part of an enlightened enterprise of intellectual discovery.”

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Source: Books, The End of Racism (1995), Ch. 1

Fear , Parting

“Imagine the unimaginable… What would the world look like if America did not exist?”

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Documentary films, America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014)

World , Imagination

“Did America owe something to the slaves whose labor had been stolen? … That debt…is best discharged through memory, because the slaves are dead and their descendants…are better off as a consequence of their ancestors being hauled from Africa to America.”

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Source: Books, America: Imagine a World without Her (2014), Ch. 8

Memory , Dead

“Visitors to places like New York are amazed to see the way in which Serbs and Croatians, Sikhs and Hindus, Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, Jews and Palestinians, all seem to work and live together in harmony. How is this possible when these same groups are spearing each other and burning each other's homes in so many places in the world?”

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Articles, 10 Things to Celebrate: Why I'm an Anti-Anti-American (June 2003)

World , Way , Home

“The first time, we did not know what change would look like. Now we do. The first time, we did not know Barack Obama. Now we do. Which dream will we carry into 2016? The American dream or Obama's dream? The future is not in my hands. It's not even in Obama's hands. The future is in your hands.”

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Documentary films, 2016: Obama's America (2012)

Dreams , Change , Time , Future

“We are today living out the script for America and the world that was dreamt up not by Obama but by Obama's father. How do I know this? Because Obama says so himself. Reflect for a moment on the title of his book: it's not Dreams of My Father but rather Dreams from My Father. In other words, Obama is not writing a book about his father's dreams; he is writing a book about the dreams that he got from his father.Think about what this means. The most powerful country in the world is being governed according to the dreams of a Luo tribesman of the 1950s—a polygamist who abandoned his wives, drank himself into stupors, and bounced around on two iron legs (after his real legs had to be amputated because of a car crash caused by his drunk driving). This philandering, inebriated African socialist, who raged against the world for denying him the realization of his anti-colonial ambitions, is now setting the nation’s agenda through the reincarnation of his dreams in his son. The son is the one who is making it happen, but the son is, as he candidly admits, only living out his father’s dream. The invisible father provides the inspiration, and the son dutifully gets the job done. America today is being governed by a ghost.”

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Source: Books, The Roots of Obama's Rage (2010), Ch. 10: The Last Anti-Colonial

Books , World , Dreams , Cars

“Americans are the friendliest people you will encounter, but they have few friends.”

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Source: Books, What's So Great About America (2003), Ch. 1: Why They Hate Us

People

“If racism is not the main problem for blacks, what is? Liberal antiracism.”

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Source: Books, The End of Racism (1995), Ch. 1

Problem

“The cultural left, and its allies in Congress, the media, Hollywood, the nonprofit sector, and the universities are the primary cause of the volcano of anger toward America that is erupting from the Islamic world.”

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Introduction, pp. 1–2
Books, The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left And its Responsibility for 9, 11 (2007)

World , Universe , Anger

“Capitalism works not through coercion or conquest, but through the consent of the consumer.”

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Documentary films, America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014)

“America, the freest nation on Earth, is also the most virtuous nation on Earth. This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice and immorality in America. Some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens. Virtue, these fundamentalists argue, is a higher principle than liberty. Indeed it is. And let us admit that in a free society, freedom will frequently be used badly. Freedom, by definition, includes the freedom to do good or evil, to act nobly or basely. But if freedom brings out the worst in people, it also brings out the best. The millions of Americans who live decent, praiseworthy lives desire our highest admiration because they have opted for the good when the good is not the only available option. Even amid the temptations of a rich and free society, they have remained on the straight path. Their virtue has special luster because it is freely chosen. By contrast, the societies that many Islamic fundamentalists seek would eliminate the possibility of virtue. If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an unfree society like Iran's. The reason is that coerced virtues are not virtues at all. Consider the woman who is required to wear a veil. There is no modesty in this, because she is being compelled. Compulsion cannot produce virtue, it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue. Thus a free society like America's is not merely more prosperous, more varied, more peaceful, and more tolerant; it is also morally superior to the theocratic and authoritarian regimes that America's enemies advocate.”

Dinesh D'Souza

Articles, 10 Things to Celebrate: Why I'm an Anti-Anti-American (June 2003)

People , Peace , Freedom , Evil

“If the televangelists are guilty of producing some simple-minded, self-righteous Christians, then the atheist authors are guilty of producing self-congratulatory buffoons like Condell.”

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"Why Is This Atheist So Smug?" http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/2007/09/26/why-is-this-atheist-so-smug/62, AOL News.

“I've been studying radical Islamic thought—specifically, the thinkers who have influenced contemporary radical Muslims. When you read their work, you find that there are no denunciations of modernity, no condemnations of science, no condemnations of freedom. In fact, their whole argument seems to be that the United States—through our support of secular dictators in the region—is denying Muslims freedom and control over their own destiny.”

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Interview https://www.catholicity.com/commentary/saint-paul/00041.html for CatholiCity (31 January 2007).

Support , Study , Freedom , Science

“While posing as the pursuer of thieves, and the restorer of stolen goods, the government is actually the biggest thief of all. In fact, progressives have turned a large body of Americans—basically, Democratic voters—into accessories of theft by convincing them that they are doing something just and moral by picking their fellow citizens' pockets.”

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Source: Books, America: Imagine a World without Her (2014), Ch. 14

“It is the anti-colonial ideology of his African father that Barack Obama took to heart.”

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Source: Books, The Roots of Obama's Rage (2010), Ch. 2: The Black Man's Burden

Heart

“Our President is trapped in his father's time machine. Incredibly, the U. S. is being ruled according to the dreams of a Luo tribesman of the 1950s. This philandering, inebriated African socialist, who raged against the world for denying him the realization of his anticolonial ambitions, is now setting the nation's agenda through the reincarnation of his dreams in his son. The son makes it happen, but he candidly admits he is only living out his father's dream. The invisible father provides the inspiration, and the son dutifully gets the job done. America today is governed by a ghost.”

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"How Obama Thinks" http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0927/politics-socialism-capitalism-private-enterprises-obama-business-problem.html, by Dinesh D'Souza (Forbes, 9 September 2010).

World , Dreams , Rage , Time

“Progressives have convinced people that they are fighting theft. If a greedy capitalist has looted your possessions, you would want the government to do something about it. An essential function of government is to bring thieves to justice and to restore stolen possessions to their rightful owners. If the progressive critique is valid, then it doesn't matter if government does it inefficiently, since there is no one else to do the job: inefficient justice is better than no justice. Moreover, when we ask the police to go after bad guys and repossess their stolen goods, we aren't concerned with whether we foster virtue among the "giver" and gratitude in the "receiver." That's because the giver isn't really giving; he's merely giving back, and the receiver has no cause for gratitude since he (or she) is merely being made whole. In this scenario, Americans who are sitting in the bandwagon have earned that right, and the people pulling are the thieves who deserve to be penalized and castigated. This is why I've devoted the bulk of this book to refuting the theft critique. If I've succeeded, then the whole progressive argument collapses and our federal government, far from being an instrument of justice, now becomes an instrument of plunder.”

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Source: Books, America: Imagine a World without Her (2014), Ch. 14

People , Books , Justice , Guy

“Scaring the children: for Halloween last night, I dressed as a Democrat and when kids came to my door, I took half of their candy!”

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Facebook post https://www.facebook.com/DSouzaDinesh/photos/a.279556495404346.96395.216709768355686/985875871439068/ (1 November 2014).

Children , Night

“My podium is a little narrow, but I guess that's okay since I remembered to wear pants.”

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"What's So Great About God?: Atheism vs Religion" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJvoFbA0qcs&feature=youtu.be&t=12m33s — Dinesh D'Souza and Christopher Hitchens debate at Macky Auditorium, CU Boulder (26 January 2009)
Debates

“The American slave was treated like property, which is to say, pretty well.”

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Source: Books, The End of Racism (1995), Ch. 3