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All ignorance, like all knowledge, tends thus to be opportunist.

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Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

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Education means an assimilation of white American culture. It decreases the dissimilarity of the Negroes from other Americans.

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Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.

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The breakdown of discrimination in one part of the labor market facilitates a similar change in all other parts of it. The vicious circle can be reversed.

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America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes.

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The American Negro problem is a problem in the heart of the American. It is there that the interracial tension has its focus. It is there that the decisive struggle goes on.

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A criticism of Keynes and Hayek would have to begin by pointing out the fact that in their theoretical systems there is no place for the uncertainty factor and anticipations.

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It is good proof of Keynes' intuitive genius that he reaches practical results that in many respects are very much superior to his deficient statements of certain theoretical problems.

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It is natural for the ordinary American when he sees something wrong to feel not only that there should be a law against it but, also that an organization should be formed to combat it.

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The objective of an educational campaign is to minimize prejudice—or, at least, to bring the conflict between prejudice and ideals out into the open and to force the white citizen to take his choice

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