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33 quotes by Carter G. Woodson

Carter Godwin Woodson (December 19, 1875 – April 3, 1950) was an African-American historian, author, journalist and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Woodson was one of the first scholars to study African-American history. A founder of The Journal of Negro History in 1915, Woodson has been cited as the father of black history. In February 1926 he announced the celebration of "Negro History...
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Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

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When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

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If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of... →

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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 to get out of the... →

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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 his condition is... →

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In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.

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The mere imparting of information is not education.

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In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.

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The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which... →

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This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.

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We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

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I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

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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 worked out... →

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