Carter G. Woodson Quotes - Page 3

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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

  Leadership, Uplifting, Ghetto

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

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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

  Overcoming, Finals, Segregation

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.101, Book Tree

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• The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Alternatives, Rising, Spheres

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.107, Book Tree

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• One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Citing, Cases, Abolitionist

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

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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

  Failure, Government, Slavery

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.99, Book Tree

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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

  Law, White, Suits

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• Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Scholar, University, South

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

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