“When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his “proper place” and will stay in it.”
― The Mis-Education of the Negro
― The Mis-Education of the Negro
“Real education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better,”
― The Mis-Education of the Negro
― The Mis-Education of the Negro
“The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.”
― The Mis-Education of the Negro
― The Mis-Education of the Negro
“As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.”
― The Mis-Education of the Negro
― The Mis-Education of the Negro
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