If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.

The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.