Carter G. Woodson - Negroes Quotes

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

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

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At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

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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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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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Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.

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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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In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked at the economic debasement of the Negro at times almost to the point of starvation.

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Most historians know practically nothing about the Negroes in Africa prior to their enslavement and there has been little systematic effort to study them... The fact is that we know less about Africa than about any other part of the world.

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