"If you can control a mans thinking, you……" — Carter G. Woodson
"If you can control a mans thinking, you dont have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what a man thinks you do not have worry about what he will do. If you can make a man believe that he is inferior, you dont have to compel him to seek an inferior status, he will do so without being told and if you can make a man believe that he is justly an outcast, you dont have to order him to the back door, he will go to the back door on his own and if there is no back door, the very nature of the man will demand that you build one."
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Carter G. Woodson
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59 Quotes by Carter G. Woodson
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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be…
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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