"If the white man wants to hold on……" — Carter G. Woodson
"If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own."
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59 Quotes by Carter G. Woodson
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The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think…
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The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished…
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For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find…
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We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected…
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I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.
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Our aim is to appeal to reason. … Prayer is not one of our remedies; it depends on what one…
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We have a wonderful history behind us. ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have…
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Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.
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In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation…
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Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?
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The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.
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The race needs workers, not leaders.
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