American - Historian | December 19, 1875 - April 3, 1950
I am a radical.
Carter G. Woodson
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The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself.
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Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
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If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
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And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
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The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.
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If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.
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Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
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The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.
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