“In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.”
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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.
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.