At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.
Carter G. WoodsonTags: africans afro-americans black black-people negroes
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. WoodsonThe mere imparting of information is not education.
Carter G. WoodsonWhat 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. WoodsonThe 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.
Carter G. WoodsonTags: mis-education-of-negro
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. WoodsonThose who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
Carter G. WoodsonThe 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. WoodsonI am a radical.
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