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" And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race. "
Segregation
Development
History
" 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. "
Black
Change
Face
" Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority. "
Then
Where
Places
" I am a radical. "
I Am
Radical
Am
" I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit. "
I Am
Afraid
White
" I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me. "
I Am
Help
Brave
" If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. "
Race
Thought
History
" If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do. "
Present
Discrimination
Nothing
" 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. "
Never
Strong
Will
" 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. "
Carry
White
Own
" In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money. "
Confidence
Money
Worth
" Let us banish fear. "
Fear
Let Us
Banish
" Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits. "
Function
Business
Because
" Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination. "
Who
Long
Opportunities
" Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South. "
Most
Known
Scholars
" 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. "
Individual
Tax
Position
" The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess. "
Evidence
Gifts
Others
" 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. "
Finishing
People
Development
" The mere imparting of information is not education. "
Imparting
Education
Mere
" 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. "
Production
Down
Going
" The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples. "
Others
Education
Conformity
" 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. "
Book
Him
Almost
" 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. "
Leadership
Life
Religion
" This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom. "
Start
Much
Movement
" Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. "
Who
Teacher
Lose
" When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. "
Man
You
Worry
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