“...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. It kills one's aspirations and dooms him to vagabondage and… — 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, the Lati and the Teuton and to despise the African.” — 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
