American - Historian | December 19, 1875 - April 3, 1950
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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When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.
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The mere imparting of information is not education.
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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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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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I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.
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In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.
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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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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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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 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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One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.
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