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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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“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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“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 present system under the control of the whites trains the Negro to be white and at the same time convinces him of the impropriety or the impossibility of his becoming white... the Negros will have no outlet but to go down a blind alley, if the sort of education which they are now receiving is to enable them to find the way out of their present difficulties.”
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James’s 2024 Year in Books
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