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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."
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