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" I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me. "

Carter G. Woodson

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" Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority. "

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" 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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" Let us banish fear. "

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

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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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" 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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" Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South. "

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" 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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" 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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" In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money. "

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

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" When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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