Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.- Heraclitus

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If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

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The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

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“It’s said that ignorance is bliss. Ignorance is this: a vine that sneaks up a tree, killing not by poison, but by blocking out its light. ― Amanda Gorman

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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. -Confucius

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Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

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I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance. -Diogenes

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Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.

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