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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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This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
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If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor in Africa and America. Play up before the Negro, then, his crimes and shortcomings. Let him learn to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton. Lead the Negro to detest the man of African blood--to hate himself.
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At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.
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We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
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Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
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When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.
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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.