And thus goes segregation which is the most far–reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race. — Carter G. Woodson

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess. — Carter G. Woodson

What 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. Woodson

The race needs workers, not leaders. — Carter G. Woodson

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

If 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

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do. — Carter G. Woodson

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. — Carter G. Woodson

Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination. — Carter G. Woodson

If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own. — Carter G. Woodson

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits. — Carter G. Woodson

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers. — Carter G. Woodson

If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do. — Carter G. Woodson

One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists. — Carter G. Woodson

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

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority. — Carter G. Woodson

I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me. — Carter G. Woodson

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people. — Carter G. Woodson

The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself. — Carter G. Woodson

I am a radical. — Carter G. Woodson

The thought of’ the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies. — Carter G. Woodson

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South. — Carter G. Woodson

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just. — Carter G. Woodson

I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit. — Carter G. Woodson