Top 26 Quotes by Carter G. Woodson

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.

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.

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

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.

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.

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

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

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.

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