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. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
“...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 Image
