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- History
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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.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us banish fear.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a radical.
- Brave Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.
- Most
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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.
- Imparting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mere imparting of information is not education.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
- Class
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
- Evidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
- Emancipation
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- Nov 07, 2020
One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Ghetto
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
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- Nov 07, 2020