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.
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.
Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.
And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
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.
Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?
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.
I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.
Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.
The mere imparting of information is not education.
The race needs workers, not leaders.
In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.
In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.
When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.
The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.
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.
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.