Carter G. Woodson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Carter G. Woodson quotes and sayings page 2 (historian). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 33 we have.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.”
“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.”
“In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.”
“One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.”
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