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This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

Carter G. Woodson
Leadership, Uplifting, Ghetto
Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.110, Book Tree

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

Carter G. Woodson
Overcoming, Finals, Segregation
Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.101, Book Tree

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

Carter G. Woodson
Alternatives, Rising, Spheres
Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.107, Book Tree

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

Carter G. Woodson
Citing, Cases, Abolitionist
Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.102, Book Tree

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

Carter G. Woodson
Failure, Government, Slavery
Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.99, Book Tree

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

Carter G. Woodson
Scholar, University, South
Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.3, Book Tree

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

Carter G. Woodson
Law, White, Suits

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