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I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

~Carter G. Woodson

Topics: Act Am Brave Brave Men Find Help Me Men Ready I Am I Can

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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

Topics: Almost Book Class Every He Him Inferiority Studies Thought

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This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.

~Carter G. Woodson

Topics: Anti Because Crusade Did Important More Movement Much Start Than Would

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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

Topics: Best Colleges Development Finishing Large Majority Negroes Our People Put Who Worthless

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Let us banish fear.

~Carter G. Woodson

Topics: Banish Fear Let Us Us

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

~Carter G. Woodson

Topics: Afraid Anything Been Denied Development Discrimination Like Long Naturally Negroes Opportunities Sounds Who

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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

Topics: Another Black Change Condition Curse Face Handicap Him His Hopeless Said Sort Struggle Student Teaching Well Worst

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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

Topics: Development Enslavement Goes History Most Race Segregation Since The History Of Thus Which

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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

Topics: Alternative Down Facing Going Graves Manufacturers Merchants Negroes Production Proportion Rising Sphere Supply

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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

Topics: Banks Because Business Cannot Failed Function Own People Pioneers Rule Sphere Taught

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: December 19th, 1875

Died: April 3rd, 1950

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