Convinced Quote by Carter G. Woodson

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he…

— Carter G. Woodson

Most of the, or I should say many of the negro leaders actually suffer themselves from an inferiority complex even though they say they…

— Malcolm X

I feel that when a white child goes to school only with white children, unconsciously that child grows up in many instances devoid of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“THE "educated Negroes" have the attitude of contempt toward their own people because in their own as well as in their mixed schools Negroes…

— Carter G. Woodson

Combining the lack of emotional literacy they may be imbued with, with the fact that if you're black you're not supposed to be that…

— John Amaechi

“...if a parent does not know how to love and nurture a child while he is young, especially black boys, that child will grow…

— Daniel Whyte III

What a racially segregated system once taught the young black about living with his inferiority is now taught by a benevolent social welfare system.…

— Charles A. Murray

“wherever a school is actually teaching boys and girls to do something that the community wants, it is seldom that that school fails to…

— Booker T. Washington

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

— Philip Wylie

“Unfortunately for Black teenagers, those cultural stereotypes do not usually include academic achievement.”

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.

— Jonathan Kozol

It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other…

— Martin Luther King, Jr