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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

Let us banish fear. — Carter G. Woodson

Cooperation implies equality of the participants in the particular task at hand. — Carter G. Woodson

In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money. — 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

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

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

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