“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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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.
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.
The mere imparting of information is not education.
As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.