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The race needs workers, not leaders.
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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For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.
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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.
Carter G. Woodson
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.
Carter G. Woodson
Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
Carter G. 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 G. 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 G. Woodson
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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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.
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I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.
Carter G. Woodson
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.
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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.
Carter G. Woodson
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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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'.
Carter G. Woodson
Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?
Carter G. 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 G. 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 G. Woodson
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.
Carter G. Woodson
In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.
Carter G. Woodson
We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
Carter G. Woodson
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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