Carter G. Woodson Quotes

American - Historian December 19, 1875 - April 3, 1950

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.

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History Tradition Thought World

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

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Man Thinking You Control

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

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Teacher History Lose Inspiration

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

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Confidence Money People Worth More

The mere imparting of information is not education.

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Education Information Mere Imparting

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.

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Education Good Others Out

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.

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Change Struggle Black Face

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.

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Race Different Others Evidence

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.

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Down Rising Going Production

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.

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Man White Own Out

If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.

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Discrimination Present Will Forever

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.

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Strong Enough Never Ghetto

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.

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Thought Book Class Him

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

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Accept Segregation Teach Overcome

In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.

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Talent Discrimination Long Run

I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

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I Am Me Men Brave

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.

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Best People Development Who

Let us banish fear.

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Fear Us Let Us Banish

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.

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Places Must Where Then

One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.

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Who Cite Emancipation Cases

I am a radical.

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I Am Radical Am

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.

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Failure Slavery Government Evidence

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.

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Life Education Leadership Religion

I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.

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Welcome I Am White Law

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.

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Confidence Money People Long

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

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History Race Development Segregation

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