Carter G. Woodson

Quotes

• “History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who h...”
• “The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, bec...”
• “This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and soc...”
• “As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to ...”
• “If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world,...”
• “Let us banish fear. We have been in this mental state for three centuries. I am a radical. I am ready to act, if I can f...”
• “Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of...”
• “In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.”
• “The mere imparting of information is not education.”