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Carter G. Woodson Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.



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.

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.



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

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



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.

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.



No man knows what he can do until he tries.

No man knows what he can do until he tries.



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.

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 real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.

The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.



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.

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.



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

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



The mere imparting of information is not education.

The mere imparting of information is not education.





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