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

    Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.108, Book Tree
  • You must give your own story to the world.

  • 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 (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.3, Book Tree
  • 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 (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.9, Book Tree
  • Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.

    Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.126, Book Tree
  • 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.

  • 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 (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.108, Book Tree
  • In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

  • 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.

    Diversity   Doe   Needs  
    Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.11, Book Tree
  • 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 (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.99, Book Tree
  • 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 (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.110, Book Tree
  • We have a wonderful history behind us. ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record, the world will say to you, 'You are not worthy to enjoy the blessings of democracy or anything else'.

  • 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 (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.101, Book Tree
  • Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.

    Carter G. Woodson, Charles H. Wesley (2008). “The Story of the Negro Retold”, p.427, Wildside Press LLC
  • No man knows what he can do until he tries.

    Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.187, Book Tree
  • Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.

    Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.10, Book Tree
  • The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

    "The Mis-Education of the Negro". Book by Carter G. Woodson, 1933.
  • 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 (2008). “Negro Makers of History”, p.20, Wildside Press LLC
  • Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.

    Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.2, Book Tree
  • 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 (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.102, Book Tree
  • One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.

    Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.102, Book Tree
  • 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 (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.4, Book Tree
  • 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 (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.108, Book Tree
  • The race needs workers, not leaders.

    Needs  
    Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.118, Book Tree
  • 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. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.12, Book Tree
  • 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 (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.108, Book Tree
  • 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. Woodson, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Mind of the Negro As Reflected in Letters During the Crisis 1800-1860”, p.3, Courier Corporation
  • If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.

  • 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 (2008). “Negro Makers of History”, p.20, Wildside Press LLC
  • 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 (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.12, Book Tree
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