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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
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Carter G. Woodson
Age: 74 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 19
Died: 1950
Died: April 3
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Carter G. Woodson
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And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
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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.
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In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.
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Our aim is to appeal to reason. … Prayer is not one of our remedies it depends on what one is praying for. We consider prayer nothing more than a fervent wish consequently the merit and worth of a prayer depend upon what the fervent wish is.
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The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth while, depresses and crushes at the same time the spark of genius in the Negro by making him feel that his race does not amount to much and never will measure up to the standards of other peoples.
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Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
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It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.
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History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.
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In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked at the economic debasement of the Negro at times almost to the point of starvation.
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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.
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We have a wonderful history behind us. ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record, the world will say to you, 'You are not worthy to enjoy the blessings of democracy or anything else'.
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Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
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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.
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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.
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Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.
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