Carter g. woodson

The mere imparting of information is not education.

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.

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

In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.

In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.

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.

Let us banish fear.

The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.

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.

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.