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Carter G. Woodson Quotes


The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.

They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.