“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.”
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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.
The mere imparting of information is not education.
Let us banish fear.
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.