

“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.”
― The Mis-Education of the Negro
― The Mis-Education of the Negro

“There are some things children cannot know, because once they learn them they are no longer children.”
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“It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.”
― The Mis-Education of the Negro
― The Mis-Education of the Negro

“No man knows what he can do until he tries.”
― The Mis-Education of the Negro
― The Mis-Education of the Negro
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