Quotes by Carter G. Woodson

Carter G. Woodson

American historian, author and journalist

Lived from: 1875 - 1950

Category: History and sociology | Media | Writers (Contemporary)

Born: 19 december 1875 Died: 3 april 1950

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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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.
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  • In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent. It constrains men to recognize it.
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  • 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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  • Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.
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  • One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.
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  • Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
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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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  • 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.
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  • The educational system of a country is worthless unless it [revolutionizes the social order]. Men of scholarship, and prophetic insight, must show us the right way and lead us into light which is shining brighter and brighter.
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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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  • 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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What are the most famous quotes from Carter G. Woodson?

The two most famous quotes from Carter G. Woodson are:

  • "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."
  • "And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race."

When did Carter G. Woodson live?

Carter G. Woodson was born in 1875 and died in the year 1950.