In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them. — 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
