Carter G. Woodson Quotes & Sayings
33 most famous Carter G. Woodson quotes and sayings (historian). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The mere imparting of information is not education.”
“When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.”
“Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.”
“We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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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