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 i….

If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern y….

You must give your own story to the world..

The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong..

For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better..

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself..

We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the w….

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South..

I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit..

The race needs workers, not leaders..

The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth….

If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for ….

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 b….

I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me..

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of goin….

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….

We have a wonderful history behind us. ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record, the world will say to you, 'You a….

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will fin….

Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains..

Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. O….

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice..