American - Historian | December 19, 1875 - April 3, 1950
Let us banish fear.
Carter G. Woodson
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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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I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.
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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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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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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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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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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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Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
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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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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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In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.
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