Carter G. Woodson Quotes

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• For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Mean, People, Justice

  "The Mis-Education of the Negro". Book by Carter G. Woodson, 1933.

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• 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 do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Nature, Power, Men

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• History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Rights, Government, Doe

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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

  Race, History, African American

  Carter G. Woodson, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Mind of the Negro As Reflected in Letters During the Crisis 1800-1860”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Education, Teaching, Men

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.9, Book Tree

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• You must give your own story to the world.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Giving, Stories, World

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• We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world, void of national bias, race, hate, and religious prejudice. There should be no indulgence in undue eulogy of the Negro. The case of the Negro is well taken care of when it is shown how he has far influenced the development of civilization.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Religious, Hate, Taken

  Carter G. Woodson (2008). “Negro Makers of History”, p.20, Wildside Press LLC

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• 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. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Real, Men, Two

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.126, Book Tree

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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

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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• No man knows what he can do until he tries.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Life, Encouraging, Men

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.187, Book Tree

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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

  Being Strong, Ghetto, Hands

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.110, Book Tree

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• We have a wonderful history behind us. ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record, the world will say to you, 'You are not worthy to enjoy the blessings of democracy or anything else'.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Blessing, History, African American

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• The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Real, Thinking, People

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.130, Book Tree

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• 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 here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Cutting, Men, Thinking

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.12, Book Tree

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• 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 crushes at the same time the spark of genius in the Negro by making him feel that his race does not amount to much and never will measure up to the standards of other peoples.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Crush, Depressing, Educational

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.12, Book Tree

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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

  Change, Struggle, Teaching

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• 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 to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor in Africa and America. Play up before the Negro, then, his crimes and shortcomings. Let him learn to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton. Lead the Negro to detest the man of African blood--to hate himself.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Hate, Latin, Men

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.192, Book Tree

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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

  Education, Giving, Democracy

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

  Carter G. Woodson

  Men, Thinking, Worry

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.84, Book Tree

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• Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Educational, Past, Circles

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• What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Religious, Hate, Race

  Carter G. Woodson (2008). “Negro Makers of History”, p.20, Wildside Press LLC

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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

  Book, Class, Inferiority

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.2, Book Tree

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• Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Past, Gold, Mountain

  Carter G. Woodson, Charles H. Wesley (2008). “The Story of the Negro Retold”, p.427, Wildside Press LLC

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

  Carter G. Woodson

  Confidence, People, Facts

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.108, Book Tree

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• The mere imparting of information is not education.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Education, Information, Mere

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.9, Book Tree

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