Words matter. These are the best Carter G. Woodson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
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.
In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.
Let us banish fear.
If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.
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.
I am a radical.
As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
The mere imparting of information is not education.
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.
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.
I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.
When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.
If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
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 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.
Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
