The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.
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We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
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Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
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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.
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In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.
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The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.
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