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" Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority. "
Carter G. Woodson
Then
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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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" 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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" 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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" I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Nothing
" 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. "
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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. "
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Will
" 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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Life
Religion
" And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race. "
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Segregation
Development
History
" 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. "
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Function
Business
Because
" In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money. "
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Confidence
Money
Worth
" 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. "
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Start
Much
Movement
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Imparting
Education
Mere
" 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. "
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Gifts
Others
" Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South. "
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Most
Known
Scholars
" 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. "
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Carry
White
Own
" 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. "
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Others
Education
Conformity
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Radical
Am
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Man
You
Worry