“This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.”
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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.
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
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.
