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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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"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history."
"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."
"Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority."
"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."
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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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