One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists. 
They are anxious to have everything the white man has even if it is harmful. 
Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior? 
In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent. 
Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains. 
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. 
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. 
You must give your own story to the world. 
I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit. 
No man knows what he can do until he tries. 
The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong. 
At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do. 
Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority. 
Cooperation implies equality of the participants in the particular task at hand. 
Let us banish fear. 
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. 
We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just. 