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The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.
Carter G. Woodson
Class
Book
Inferiority
Thought
Every
Studies
He
Almost
Him
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.
Carter G. Woodson
Inferiority
Others
Evidence
Possess
Gifts
Superiority
Moreover
Merely
Different
Which
Race
Races
Certain
Each
Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Hannah Arendt
Hypocrite
Crime
Evil
Radical
Criminal
Only
True
Perplexity
Confront
Us
Really
Rotten
Core
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Herodotus
Great
Risks
Wrought
Deeds
Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Best
People
Will
Others
Despise
Those
Out
Never
Get
Themselves
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
Arthur M. Schlesinger
Technology
Science
Memory
Myth
Science And Technology
Frame
Our
Our Lives
Response
Tradition
Revolutionize
Lives
The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself.
Carter G. Woodson
Opportunity
Every
Unlimited
Given
Individual
Consumer
Takes
Most
Make
Himself
Author
Tax
Order
Social
Should
Social Order
Pays
Position
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
Hannah Arendt
Loyalty
Mind
Changes
Possible
Total
Only
Arise
Content
Concrete
Which
Fidelity
Might
Naturally
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
Herodotus
Nothing
Given
More
Outrage
Foolish
Mob
Than
Useless
Don't be intimidated by people who seem to be experts. Hear their points of view and get their judgements. But at the end of day, you've got to make a judgement because it's not their life that's going to be affected so much as your future.
Robert Dallek
Life
Future
Day
You
People
Intimidated
Seem
Points
Make
Judgement
Judgements
Because
Got
Hear
Affected
End
Get
Going
Experts
Much
View
Your
Who
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Innovation
Men
Trouble
First
Revolution
Every
Danger
Fearing
Point
Absolutely
Advance
Step
Toward
New
Reach
Look
First Step
May
Move
Refuse
Where
Cannot
Social
Theory
Help
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
Hannah Arendt
Best
Crime
Guilt
Collective
Nothing
Guilty
Possible
Magnitude
No-One
Excuse
Safeguard
Doing
Discovery
Very
Confessions
Where
Against
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
Henry Steele Commager
Censorship
Own
Society
Kind
Purpose
Fact
Exercising
Always
Real
End
Discretion
In The End
Creates
Incapable
Defeats
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus
Great
Safety
Every
Enterprise
Noble
Against
Stands
Desire
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Thucydides
Our
Secure
Favors
Accepting
Doing
Friends
Them
If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
Will Durant
Needs
Man
Own
Anarchist
Neighbor
Superfluous
Case
Laws
Only
He
Sure
Because
His
Privately
Them
Ask
Many
Thinks
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
A. J. P. Taylor
War
Political
Matter
Given
Economic
Underlying
Always
Reason
Reasons
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.
Arnold J. Toynbee
World
Islam
Virtue
Muslims
Propagation
Outstanding
Between
Contemporary
Crying
Contemporary World
Islamic
Achievements
Happens
Race
Consciousness
Need
Extinction
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Arthur Helps
Better
Beauty
Humility
Severe
Temper
Temperance
Cosmetics
Spirit
Purity
Countenance
True
True Beauty
Without
Calmness
Very
Than
Graces
Gracious
Modesty
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 in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
Carter G. Woodson
Education
Good
Needs
People
Others
Enslaved
Those
Out
Has-Been
Weaker
More
Because
Does
However
Been
Oppressed
Than
Modern
Modern Education
So-Called
Conformity
Worked
Much
Who
Defects
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
Hannah Arendt
Good
Day
Freedom
One Day
Out
Constitute
Proof
Rather
Economic
Economic Growth
Lead
Existence
Conditions
Than
May
Curse
Either
Turn
Growth
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Adams
Politics
Organization
Whatever
Systematic
Practise
Always
Been
Professions
The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
Henry Adams
Trust
Nothing
Other
Press
System
Tell
Lies
Purpose
Nobody
Involved
Hired
Up
Than
Where
Agent
Interests
Set
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
Herodotus
Strength
Force
Where
Place
Skill
Need
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
Tacitus
Peace
Wilderness
Plunder
Steal
Empire
Make
Call
Where
Things
Slaughter
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
Tacitus
Blessing
Crime
Few
More
Individuals
Passive
Shocking
Committed
Initiative
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