We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
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. WoodsonThey still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.
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. WoodsonI am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.
Carter G. WoodsonIf 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. Woodson