Carter 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 Woodson)
The mere imparting of information is not education.
Carter Woodson
When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.
Carter Woodson
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
Carter Woodson
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 Woodson
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 Woodson
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 Woodson
In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.
Carter Woodson
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 Woodson
In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.
Carter Woodson
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 Woodson)
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 Woodson
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 Woodson
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 Woodson
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 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 Woodson
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 Woodson
We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
Carter Woodson
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 Woodson
One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.
Carter Woodson
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 Woodson)
I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.
Carter Woodson
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 Woodson
Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
Carter Woodson
Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
Carter Woodson