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Attitudes, when they harden become beliefs. From beliefs, we get laws.
A prevailing attitude among whites says that Black people are inferior, doomed to be servants of theirs. From that attitude, there is a belief system: “I believe that God created them to serve us...I believe that I am superior.” Based upon these beliefs a constitution is developed that embodies them. "I believe they are subhuman. I am codifying my belief into a law that say[s] they are 3/5 of a person, which will forever determine the way in which we deal with them….
~The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
Self Improvement: The Basis For Community Development
Four Great Impediments To Self-Development
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