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The mere imparting of information is not education.

The race needs workers, not leaders.

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.

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

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.

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.

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

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.

The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.

Let us banish fear. We have been in this mental state for three centuries. I am a radical. I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.

Let us banish fear.

Cooperation implies equality of the participants in the particular task at hand.

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

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

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

One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

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

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

No man knows what he can do until he tries.

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

You must give your own story to the world.

Some of the American whites, moreover, are just as far behind in this respect as are the Negroes who have had less opportunity to learn better.

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.

Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.

In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.

Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?

They are anxious to have everything the white man has even if it is harmful.