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

- Carter G. Woodson

You must give your own story to the world.

- Carter G. Woodson

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

- Carter G. Woodson

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.

- Carter G. Woodson

We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the w…

- Carter G. Woodson

The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

- Carter G. Woodson

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 b…

- Carter G. Woodson

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

- Carter G. Woodson

History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for the…

- Carter G. Woodson