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# Chester Middlebrook Pierce

(1927–2016)   Psychiatrist

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Chester Middlebrook Pierce was a psychiatrist.

## Quick Facts About Chester Middlebrook Pierce

Born March 4, 1927

Died September 23, 2016

Profession Psychiatrist

## About Chester Middlebrook Pierce

psychiatrist (1927-2016)... \| Chester Middlebrook Pierce was an American psychiatrist and tenured professor of education and psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He was the first African-American full professor at Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1970 Pierce was the first African-American member of the American Board of Psych

##  Quotes by Chester Middlebrook Pierce

> [Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chester-middlebrook-pierce/every-child-in-america-who-enters-school-at-the-age-of-five-is/)

Chester Middlebrook Pierce

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                        "text": "Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an allegiance toward our elected officials, toward our founding fathers, toward our institutions, toward the preservation of this form of government that we have. Patriotism, nationalism, and sovereignty, all that proves that children are sick because a truly well individual is one who has rejected all of those things, and is truly the international child of the future.",
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