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

~Carter G. Woodson

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I am a radical.

~Carter G. Woodson

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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

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

~Carter G. Woodson

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Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

~Carter G. Woodson

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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

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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

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In 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. Woodson

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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

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One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.

~Carter G. Woodson

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: December 19th, 1875

Died: April 3rd, 1950

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