 Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority. |
| In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent. |
| We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just. |
| If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own. |
| In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them. |
| Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination. |
| And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race. |
| The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies. |
| The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself. |
| Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South. |
| They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands. |
| If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. |
| The mere imparting of information is not education. |
| Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits. |
| I am a radical. |
| Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. |
| When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. |
| The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess. |
| If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto. |
| As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. |
