Deprive a man of any contact with the pleasures of the spirit and he’ll fall completely into those of the flesh.” “But we don’t deprive you people of the ‘pleasures of the spirit,’ ” he said. “In most places we can’t go to the concerts, the theater, the museums, public lectures … or even to the library. Our schools in the South don’t compare to the white schools, poor as they are. You deprive a man of educational opportunities and he’ll have no knowledge of the great civilizing influences of art, history, literature and philosophy. Many Negroes don’t even know these things exist. With
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