If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.
Source: The Story of John Hope, 1948.
-- John Hope, (Jun 2 1868-1936), US educator; He advocated advanced liberal-arts instruction for blacks at a time when the opposing views of Booker T. Washington for technical training held sway.