Carter G Woodson Quotes

The mere imparting of information is not education.

If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions.

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.

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

Real education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.

The competition is not with others but with ourselves.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and cultural well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

Whenever the white man treats the black man as an equal, the black man will think in that way.

The great vice of American scholarship is specialization.

The concentration on Negro history has led the Negroes in some instances to despise their white neighbors, or to distrust them.

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 Quotes part 2

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.

The educational system of a country is worthless unless it accomplishes one major task: to teach each individual how to concentrate his or her attention upon a thing long enough to master it.

If you can teach a man to read, you can teach him to think.

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.

The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

It is self-evident that people of the African race have done much to civilize themselves, but that their assimilation of culture has been a matter of the doing of the themselves is not widely known.

If a race has no history, it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

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

Who ever heard of a teacher making progress by simply changing his methods? A teacher must adopt the scientific method and base his work on the careful gathering of facts and information.

The race needs workers at this time rather than leaders. Such workers will solve the problems that race leaders talk about endlessly.

Talent is wasted in our race when it is found in an individual who has not the means to get the best possible training.

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.

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

The accepting of others’ ideas and other approaches to a subject weakens students.

How pitiful it is to reflect that the body of knowledge now called the classics, which guides through life so many of the finest spirits of our world, that the essence of these stems of learning and of the artistic achievements of man should have been the exclusive possession of a privileged few.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

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.

The educated Negroes have the attitude of contempt toward their own people because in their own as well as in their mixed schools Negroes are taught to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton and to despise the African.

In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

There is no such thing as an inferior race.

The education of a race depends upon the development of its own talent.

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising socially in America as Negroes or of sinking into the mire of race prejudice if they allow themselves to be tampered with and to forsake their own.

Many tell us there is to be no racial discrimination. My brothers in the South, do you hear? Can you feel?

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

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

The mere imparting of information is not education.

The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

It has been a tendency of the Negro since emancipation to approach the study of his own race too much from a sentimental point of view.

If a race has no history, it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.