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