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 strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
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  • Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.
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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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  • We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
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  • We need workers, not leaders. Such workers will solve the problems which race leaders talk about.
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  • When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.
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