"Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority."

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Carter G. Woodson

#School Quotes #Inferiority Quotes

“The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.”
“Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative landscape, crowded with constant small changes of scene and full of little creeks winding with pools where shiners, crappies and catfish hover.”
“[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.”

Source : Charles Fort (2014). “LO!”, p.5, Lulu.com
“I would really love to do a musical, I don't know in what capacity but something funny.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.”
“I believe that it is only through empathy, that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident, a Rwandan child or an Iraqi prisoner, becomes real to me and not just passing news. And it is at times like this when I ask myself, am I prepared - like Huck Finn - to give up Sunday school heaven for the kind of hell that Huck chose?”
“I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.”
“Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know what it true' a description that strikes me as stunning and quite exact.”

Source : Robert Sheaffer (1991). “The Making of the Messiah: Christianity and Resentment”

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