And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race. — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias,… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination. — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
“The educated negroes have the attitude of contempt toward thier own people because they are taught to admire the Hebrews, the Greek,… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
“THE "educated Negroes" have the attitude of contempt toward their own people because in their own as well as in their mixed… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
“the so-called radical Negroes who have read and misunderstood Karl Marx and his disciples and would solve the political as well as… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
“It has been said that the Negroes do not connect morals with religion. The historian would like to know what race or… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
The present system under the control of the whites trains the Negro to be white and at the same time convinces him… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
“Some of the American whites, moreover, are just as far behind in this respect as are the Negroes who have had less… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just. — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do. — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior? — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share
“may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing,… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share
We have a wonderful history behind us. ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record, the world… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share
And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race. — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share
For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share
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… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share
We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just. — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share
If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share
“...to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share
