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Him Quotes by Carter G. Woodson
- The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth while, depresses and…
- If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough…
- As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change…
- The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.
- 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…
- We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
- If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard…
- If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you…
- Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself.…
- When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand…
- The present system under the control of the whites trains the Negro to be white and at the same time convinces him of the impropriety…
- 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…
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- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden