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> [“may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-g-woodson/may-be-well-to-repeat-here-the-saying-that-old-men-talk-of-what-they/)

[Carter G. Woodson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-g-woodson/)

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## More by Carter G. Woodson

> [The mere imparting of information is not education.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-g-woodson/the-mere-imparting-of-information-is-not-education/)

[Carter G. Woodson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-g-woodson/)

> [Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-g-woodson/why-not-exploit-enslave-or-exterminate-a-class-that-everybody-is/)

[Carter G. Woodson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-g-woodson/)

> [“Thus the thoughtless drift backward toward slavery.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-g-woodson/thus-the-thoughtless-drift-backward-toward-slavery/)

[Carter G. Woodson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-g-woodson/)

> [“may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-g-woodson/may-be-well-to-repeat-here-the-saying-that-old-men-talk-of-what-they/)

[Carter G. Woodson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-g-woodson/)

> [We have a wonderful history behind us. ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record, the world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-g-woodson/we-have-a-wonderful-history-behind-us-if-you-are-unable-to/)

[Carter G. Woodson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-g-woodson/)

> [And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-g-woodson/and-thus-goes-segregation-which-is-the-most-far-reaching-development/)

[Carter G. Woodson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-g-woodson/)

> [For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-g-woodson/for-me-education-means-to-inspire-people-to-live-more-abundantly-to/)

[Carter G. Woodson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-g-woodson/)

> [I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-g-woodson/i-am-ready-to-act-if-i-can-find-brave-men-to-help-me/)

[Carter G. Woodson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-g-woodson/)

> [The race needs workers, not leaders.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-g-woodson/the-race-needs-workers-not-leaders/)

[Carter G. Woodson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-g-woodson/)

> [In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-g-woodson/in-fact-the-confidence-of-the-people-is-worth-more-than-money/)

[Carter G. Woodson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-g-woodson/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-g-woodson/the-so-called-modern-education-with-all-its-defects-however-does/)

[Carter G. Woodson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-g-woodson/)

> [We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-g-woodson/we-do-not-show-the-negro-how-to-overcome-segregation-but-we-teach-him/)

[Carter G. Woodson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-g-woodson/)

> [If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-g-woodson/if-the-negro-in-the-ghetto-must-eternally-be-fed-by-the-hand-that/)

[Carter G. Woodson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-g-woodson/)

> [This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-g-woodson/this-assumption-of-negro-leadership-in-the-ghetto-then-must-not-be/)

[Carter G. Woodson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-g-woodson/)

> [“...to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-g-woodson/to-handicap-a-student-by-teaching-him-that-his-black-face-is-a-curse/)

[Carter G. Woodson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-g-woodson/)

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