More From Carter G. Woodson
- "Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history."
- "The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people."
- "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."