Carter G. Woodson Quotes

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.
Carter G. Woodson

Strong, Him, Enough

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

Thinking, Control, Worry

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.
Carter G. Woodson

History, Thought, Race

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

Teacher, History, Lose

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.
Carter G. Woodson

Change, Struggle, Black

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

Best, Put, Large

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.
Carter G. Woodson

Different, Others, Race

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.
Carter G. Woodson

Life, Leadership, Education

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

Best, Democracy, Give

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

Money, Confidence, Fact

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

Men, Help, Find

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

Government, Failure, Slavery

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

Book, Him, Thought

I am a radical.
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

Money, Long, Confidence

The mere imparting of information is not education.
Carter G. Woodson

Education, Mere

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

Long, Against, Talent

Let us banish fear.
Carter G. Woodson

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

Long, Afraid, Sounds

They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.
Carter G. Woodson

Money, Social, Needs

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

Important, Start, Movement

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

History, Since, Goes

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

Places, Schools, Convinced

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

Law, Afraid, Fact

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.
Carter G. Woodson

Nothing, Left, Present

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: December 19, 1875

Died: April 3, 1950

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