Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

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

Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.

In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.

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

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

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.