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Political Scientist

Charles A. Murray is an American political scientist known for his research on race, intelligence, and social structure. His works, such as 'Human Accomplishment' and 'The Bell Curve,' have sparked widespread debate.

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“People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned - it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned - and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.”

People Ifs Way Needs Self Faces Failing Achieve Possibility Self Respect

Author:Charles A. Murray

“Give people plenty and security, and they will fall into spiritual torpor.”

People Giving Spiritual Fall Security Plenty

Book:In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State

Source: In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State

“The government can back up its tastes and beliefs with the police power. That is why it cannot be permitted tastes and beliefs. Most emphatically, it cannot be permitted to define one group as being privileged over another group of people. It was wrong in the days of Jim Crow; it is wrong in the days of affirmative action.”

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Author:Charles A. Murray

About the Author

Born: January 8, 1943
Known for: Political Scientist
Quotes: 15

Books & Sources

In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare StateRelated source material

Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980Related source material

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