Carter G. Woodson

“The mere imparting of information is not education.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.”