We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
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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.Carter G. Woodson
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.
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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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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.
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If the whites are to continue for some time in doing drudgery to the exclusion of, Negroes, the latter must find another way out.
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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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