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Education ... is a torch with which to burn down a decadent world of corruption and oppression so that the green grass of freedom and justice can begin to grow.

— Nathan Hare A Torch to Burn Down a Decadent World (1970)

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The Ford Foundation pumped $2 million into four leading universities with the most ill-conceived, establishment-oriented black studies programs in the country.

A Torch to Burn Down a Decadent World (1970)

A militant today may be a moderate tomorrow, though our task of course is to ensure that it also works the other way around.

A Torch to Burn Down a Decadent World (1970)

We must pull the traditional black scholar into the arena of black liberation and permit the street intellectual, excluded from the pages of white scholarly journals, to have his long neglected say.

A Torch to Burn Down a Decadent World (1970)

An analysis of black studies throughout the land shows hardly any worthy of the name, in spite of hard work on the part of many dedicated black people. They are stymied by cunning opposition from the oppressor and his collaborators which we must understand in order to dissolve.

A Torch to Burn Down a Decadent World (1970)

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