

“Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.”
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“The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
― The Mis-Education of the Negro
― The Mis-Education of the Negro
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