“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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“No man knows what he can do until he tries.”
― The Mis-Education of the Negro
― The Mis-Education of the Negro
“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
“Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.”
― The Mis-Education of the Negro
― The Mis-Education of the Negro
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