We have a wonderful history behind us. ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record,… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
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
“...to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition… — 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
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and… — 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
“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
“It was well understood that if by the teaching of history the white man could be further assured of his superiority and… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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
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 Image
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 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