Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

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.

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 being exterminated.