Carter G. Woodson Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Carter G. Woodson quotes and sayings page 3 (historian). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 33 we have.
“And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.”
“I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.”
“Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.”
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