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.
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. WoodsonEven schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
Carter G. WoodsonWe do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
Carter G. WoodsonIf 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