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The mere imparting of information is not education.
— Carter G. Woodson
The race needs workers, not leaders.
— Carter G. Woodson
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.
— Carter G. Woodson
In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
— Carter G. Woodson
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.
— Carter G. Woodson
If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.
— Carter G. Woodson
Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
— Carter G. Woodson
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.
— Carter G. Woodson
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.
— Carter G. Woodson
And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
— Carter G. Woodson
For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.
— Carter G. Woodson
Let us banish fear. We have been in this mental state for three centuries. I am a radical. I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.
— Carter G. Woodson
The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.
— Carter G. Woodson
In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.
— Carter G. Woodson
We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
— Carter G. Woodson
Let us banish fear.
— Carter G. Woodson
Cooperation implies equality of the participants in the particular task at hand.
— Carter G. Woodson
What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
— Carter G. Woodson
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
— Carter G. Woodson
One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.
— Carter G. Woodson
Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
— Carter G. Woodson
At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.
— Carter G. Woodson
The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.
— Carter G. Woodson
No man knows what he can do until he tries.
— Carter G. Woodson
I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.
— Carter G. Woodson
You must give your own story to the world.
— Carter G. Woodson
Some of the American whites, moreover, are just as far behind in this respect as are the Negroes who have had less opportunity to learn better.
— Carter G. Woodson
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.
— Carter G. Woodson
Oh. My. God. Was I flirting with Judd Carter?
— M.G. Buehrlen
Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.
— Carter G. Woodson
In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.
— Carter G. Woodson
Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?
— Carter G. Woodson
They are anxious to have everything the white man has even if it is harmful.
— Carter G. Woodson