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Quotes from Negro Digs Up His Past — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

1874–1938 Puerto Rico

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The Negro has been throughout the centuries of controversy an active collaborator, and often a pioneer, in the struggle for his own freedom and advancement.

Negro Digs Up His Past (1925)

The American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future.

Negro Digs Up His Past (1925)

With such crucial truths to document and establish, an ounce of fact is worth a pound of controversy

Negro Digs Up His Past (1925)

By virtue of their being regarded as something "exceptional," even by friends and well-wishers, Negroes of attainment and genius have been unfairly disassociated from the group and group credit lost accordingly.

Negro Digs Up His Past (1925)

Already the Negro sees himself against a reclaimed background, in a perspective that will give pride and self-respect ample scope, and make history yield for him the same values that the treasured past of any people affords.

Negro Digs Up His Past (1925)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.