“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
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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.”
— Carter G. Woodson
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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.”
— Carter G. Woodson
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“The mere imparting of information is not education.”
— Carter G. Woodson
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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.”
— Carter G. Woodson
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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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“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.”
— Carter G. Woodson
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“I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.”
— Carter G. Woodson
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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.”
— Carter G. Woodson
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“Let us banish fear.”
— Carter G. Woodson
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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.”
— Carter G. Woodson
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Category: history
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