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

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.

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely sees in that ordeal something to approve or condemn fails to understand the evolution of the human race.

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.