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The Life Of The Nation Is Shot Through With A Certain Falseness And Hypocrisy, Which Are All The More Tragic Because They Are So Often Subconscious Rather Than Deliberate ... The Soul Of The People Is Putrescent, And Until That Becomes Regenerate And Clean, No Good Work Can Be Done.

Culture Has Never The Translucidity Of Custom; It Abhors All Simplification. In Its Essence It Is Opposed To Custom, For Custom Is Always The Deterioration Of Culture.

Violence Is A Cleansing Force. It Frees The Native From His Inferiority Complex And From His Despair And Inaction; It Makes Him Fearless And Restores His Self-respect

When A Bachelor Of Philosophy From The Antilles Refuses To Apply For Certification As A Teacher On The Grounds Of His Color I Say That Philosophy Has Never Saved Anyone. When Someone Else Strives And Strains To Prove To Me That Black Men Are As Intelligent As White Men I Say That Intelligence Has Never Saved Anyone: And That Is True, For, If Philosophy And Intelligence Are Invoked To Proclaim The Equality Of Men, They Have Also Been Employed To Justify The Extermination Of Men.

They Realize At Last That Change Does Not Mean Reform, That Change Does Not Mean Improvement.