african american quotes

Practically all of the successful Negroes in this country are of the uneducated type or of that of Negroes who have had no formal education at all.

The 'educated Negroes' have the attitude of contempt toward their own people because in their own as well in their mixed schools, Negroes are taught to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin, and the Teuton and to despise the African...For example, an [white] officer of a Negro university, thinking that an additional course on the Negro should be given there, called upon a Negro Doctor of Philosophy of the faculty to offer such work. [The Negro Doctor] promptly informed the officer that he knew nothing about the Negro. He did not go to school to waste his time that way. He went to be educated in a system which dismissed the Negro as a nonentity.

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.