Quotes by Carter G. Woodson

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

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.

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

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.

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.