"The mere imparting of information is not education."

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"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."

Thought

"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."

Change

"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."

Man

"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."

History

"When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions."

Control

"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history."

Inspirational

"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."

Race

"Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination."

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"I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit."

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"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."

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