"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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"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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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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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."

Will

"And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race."

History

"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."

Money

"The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself."

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"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."

Government

"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

"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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"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."

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

Inspirational

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

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