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.
From Carter G. Woodson
When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.
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.
Let us banish fear.
I am a radical.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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