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. WoodsonAt this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.
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. WoodsonWe do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
Carter G. WoodsonOur most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
Carter G. WoodsonPhilosophers 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