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"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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"India will develop when our villages prosper. By improving the economy of villages we can power our country's growth."

"The higher the proportion of adults with low literacy proficiency is, the slower the overall long-term GDP growth rate is."

"I don't know how - it is a question of process."

"Our self- development is all about cultivating the traits that we need to achieve our life purpose, success and to carry out our mission."

"India's strength lies in her villages. Our aim is to bridge the differences between rural and urban India. We want our villages to have all the facilities that are there in the cities."

"For the development of India. the development of eastern India is essential"

"You have to work at having quality in your church, because people that are influential in your city may be God's instruments for resolving all kinds of problems that will most surely come up in the future."

"To develop the person inside you is to pay attention and develop life within yourself."

"You must live a life of self-consciousness always."

"We downplay our excellence when we only depend on miracles."
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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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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