We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
From Carter G. Woodson
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.
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.
I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.
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.
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
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.
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.
The mere imparting of information is not education.
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.
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