College graduates Quote by 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,…

— Carter G. Woodson

“But black students were left on their own.”

— Isabel Wilkerson

You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by…

— Medgar Evers

“I knew that, in a large degree, we were trying an experiment--that of testing whether or not it was possible for Negroes to build…

— Booker T. Washington

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development…

— Carter G. Woodson

Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“I keep thinking about Marcus Garvey and what he says about black people knowing themselves. It's clear that if the so-called Negro goes to…

— Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

“The opposition to Negro education in the South was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of…

— Allan Dare Pearce

“We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the…

— Andrew Carnegie

“McWhorter claims that low black educational achievements are not the result of racism but of an attitude within the black community that academic achievement…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he…

— Carter G. Woodson