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Carter G. Woodson

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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


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


— Carter G. Woodson


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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


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The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.


— Carter G. Woodson


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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.


— Carter G. Woodson


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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.


— Carter G. Woodson


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


— Carter G. Woodson


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


— Carter G. Woodson


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Let us banish fear.


— Carter G. Woodson


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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.


— Carter G. Woodson


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E. B. Grimke did not welcome Woodson's ideas.

A founder of Journal of Negro History Woodson has been cited as the father of black history. Carter Godwin Woodson (December 19 1875 – April 3 1950) was an African-American historian author journalist and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Woodson was one of the first scholars to study African-American history.

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