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Being taught is more than absorbing facts; Carter G. Woodson frames education as a conduit for empowerment and cultural pride. His reflections highlight how knowledge can dismantle oppression, urging readers to honor the legacy of those who fought for intellectual freedom and community uplift.

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Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?

Carter G. Woodson

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At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

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Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which…

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In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked…

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Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere,…

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The mere imparting of information is not education.

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Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?

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“Thus the thoughtless drift backward toward slavery.”

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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,…

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We have a wonderful history behind us. ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record, the world…

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And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

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For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it…

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I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

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The race needs workers, not leaders.

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In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.

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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…

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We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

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If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong…

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This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal…

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“...to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless…

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