Kenneth and Mamie Clark Quote

The neoconservatives are formidable adversaries. They say that victims are the cause of their own victimization. "We pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps," they say, and they want us to do the same even though they want to take away our boots.


Quoted in the New York Times (December 27, 1984)


The neoconservatives are formidable adversaries. They say that victims are the cause of their own victimization. We pulled ourselves up by our...

The neoconservatives are formidable adversaries. They say that victims are the cause of their own victimization. We pulled ourselves up by our...

The neoconservatives are formidable adversaries. They say that victims are the cause of their own victimization. We pulled ourselves up by our...

The neoconservatives are formidable adversaries. They say that victims are the cause of their own victimization. We pulled ourselves up by our...