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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. - Carter G. Woodson
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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. - Carter G. Woodson
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If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery. - Carter G. Woodson
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This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible. - Carter G. Woodson
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In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them. - Carter G. Woodson
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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. - Carter G. Woodson
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I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit. - Carter G. Woodson
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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. - Carter G. Woodson
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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 in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples. - Carter G. Woodson
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The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people. - Carter G. Woodson
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I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me. - Carter G. Woodson
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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 hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. - Carter G. Woodson
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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 being exterminated. - Carter G. Woodson
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In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent. - Carter G. Woodson
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In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money. - Carter G. Woodson
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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 ghetto. - Carter G. Woodson
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When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. - Carter G. Woodson
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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. - Carter G. Woodson
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The mere imparting of information is not education. - Carter G. Woodson
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