Arturo Alfonso Schomburg quotes
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“The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as the one country where it is unnecessary to have a past, what is a luxury for the nation as a whole becomes a prime social necessity for the Negro. For him, a group tradition must supply compensation for persecution, and pride of race the antidote for prejudice. History must restore what slavery took away, for it is the social damage of slavery that the present generation must repair and offset.”
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“American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future.”
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“Pride of race is the antidote to prejudice.”
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“The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's lips, the subject has been forgotten.”
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“We need the historian and philosopher to give us with trenchant pen, the story of our forefathers, and let our soul and body, with phosphorescent light, brighten the chasm that separates us. We should cling to them just as blood is thicker than water.”
-- Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
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Source : "Memoirs of a Superfluous Man" by Albert J. Nock, (p. 314), 1943.
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Source : "Sh'ma, Volume 34, Issue 607 - Volume 36, Issue 626". Book edited by J. Jakobovits, 2004.
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Source : 'Listener' 6 June 1963
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“What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.”
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