Quotes by : Carter G. Woodson

You cannot serve people by giving them orders as to what to do. The real servant of the people must live....

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought....

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it....

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

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that....

History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government,....

If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what....

The mere imparting of information is not education.

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion,....

In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.