Carter G. Woodson Quotes About Social Justice

Quotes about: Social Justice

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

  Diversity, Doe, Needs

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.11, Book Tree

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