The present system under the control of the whites trains the Negro to be white and at the same time convinces him of the impropriety or the impossibility of his becoming white... the Negros will have no outlet but to go down a blind alley, if the sort of education which they are now receiving is to enable them to find the way out of their present difficulties.
Carter G. WoodsonIn 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. WoodsonThose who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
Carter G. WoodsonNegroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.
Carter G. Woodson