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 American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
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 American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority. Carter G. Woodson American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit. Carter G. Woodson American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me. Carter G. Woodson American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
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 American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
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 American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
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 American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
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 American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
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 American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money. Carter G. Woodson American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
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 American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent. Carter G. Woodson American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
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. Carter G. Woodson American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination. Carter G. Woodson American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists. Carter G. Woodson American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South. Carter G. Woodson American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself. Carter G. Woodson American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
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 American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
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 American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
The mere imparting of information is not education. Carter G. Woodson American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
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. Carter G. Woodson American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
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. Carter G. Woodson American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
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 American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0