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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

  College, People, Majority

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

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• Our aim is to appeal to reason. … Prayer is not one of our remedies; it depends on what one is praying for. We consider prayer nothing more than a fervent wish; consequently the merit and worth of a prayer depend upon what the fervent wish is.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Prayer, Wish, Merit

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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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• In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked at the economic debasement of the Negro at times almost to the point of starvation.

  Carter G. Woodson

  School, Black, Taught

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.4, Book Tree

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

  Carter G. Woodson

  Running, Attitude, Long

  "The Influence of a School District's Early Childhood Education Policy on Urban Students' Academic Achievement Towards Advanced Class Placement". Book by Alice P. Bartley, p. 21, 2008.

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• The present system under the control of the whites trains the Negro to be white and at the same time convinces him of the impropriety or the impossibility of his becoming white... the Negros will have no outlet but to go down a blind alley, if the sort of education which they are now receiving is to enable them to find the way out of their present difficulties.

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  White, Receiving, Way

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• The race needs workers, not leaders.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Race, Leader, Needs

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.118, Book Tree

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• At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Black, Taught, Moments

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

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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

  Lynching, Important, Would Be

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.3, Book Tree

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• It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Men, Race, Class

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.118, Book Tree

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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 the others do not possess.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Race, Racism, Different

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• The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely sees in that ordeal something to approve or condemn fails to understand the evolution of the human race.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Drama, Race, Evolution

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• Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?

  Carter G. Woodson

  Class, Black, Why Not

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.3, Book Tree

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

  Carter G. Woodson

  Men, Brave, Helping

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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

  Men, White Man, Want

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

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• I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a lawsuit. It would do the cause much good. 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 find brave men to help me.

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  Men, White, Brave

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• If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Forever, Atmosphere, Discrimination

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

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• And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Race, History, African American

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.102, Book Tree

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• The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Confidence, Long, People

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

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• Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Opportunity, Long, Sound

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.10, Book Tree

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• They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Money, Needs, Demand

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

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• Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.

  Carter G. Woodson

  School, Inferiority, Convinced

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

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• The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Opportunity, Order, Pay

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

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• Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Business, People, Pioneers

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

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