Carter G. Woodson

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

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

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

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.

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.

They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.

If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.

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

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

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.

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.

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