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

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.

I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.

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.

History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.

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.

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