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Carter G. Woodson Quotes

1875–1950 United States

Carter Godwin Woodson (19 December 1875 – 3 April 1950) was an African American professor, historian, author, and journalist. In February 1926, he launched the celebration of "Negro History Week," the precursor of Black History Month.

United States
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Also known as: Carter Godwin Woodson, Carter Woodson, The Mis-education of the Negro

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The chief reason why so many give such a little attention to the background of the Negro is the belief that this study is unimportant.

The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933)

The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with this interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933)

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933)

The average Negro has not been sufficiently mis-educated to become hopeless.

The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933)

History does not furnish a case of the elevation of a people by ignoring the thought and aspiration of the people thus served.

The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933)

The educational system as it has developed both in Europe and America an antiquated process which does not hit the mark even in the case of the needs of the white man himself.

The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933)

This shameful status of higher education is due in a large measure to low standards of institutions with a tendency toward the diplomamill procure. TO get a job or to hold one you ho in and stay until they "grind" you out a "darkter's 'gree." And you do not have to worry any further. The assumption is that almost any school will be glad to have you thereafter, and you will receive a large salary.

The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933)

Believing that slaves could not be enlightened without developing in them a longing for liberty, not a few masters maintained that the more brutish the bondmen the more pliant they become for purposes of exploitation. It was this class of slaveholders that finally won the majority of southerners to their way of thinking and determined that Negroes should not be educated.

The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 (1915)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Carter G. Woodson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.