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• The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do…
• The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth…
• For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and…
• We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or…
• I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.
• Our aim is to appeal to reason. … Prayer is not one of our remedies; it depends on what one is praying…
• We have a wonderful history behind us. ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record,…
• Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.
• In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked…
• Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?
• The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.
• The race needs workers, not leaders.

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