Carter G. Woodson Short Quotes

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The citizenship of the Negro in this country is a fiction.

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

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Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.

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Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

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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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Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?

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The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

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The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.

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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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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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Real education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.

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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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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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The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

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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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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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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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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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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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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.

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