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"If you can control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you can determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself with what he will do.
If you can make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept his inferior status, for he will seek it himself.
If you can make a man think he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one."

– Dr. Carter G. Woodson, The Miseducation of the Negro.

"And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since enslavement of the race. Infact, it is a sequel to slavery. It has been made possible by our system of mis-educating innocent people who did not know what was happening."

– Dr. Carter G. Woodson, The Miseducation of the Negro.


“I have found that, to make a contended slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.”

-Frederick Douglass


"Foreigners, who have not studied economics but have studied Negroes, take up this business and grow rich."

– Dr. Carter G. Woodson, The Miseducation of the Negro.


"When they began to discuss business, however, he had to leave the room. About the only time he could see them in action was when they were at play, indulging in extravagances which the Negro learned to take up before he could afford them."

– Dr. Carter G. Woodson, The Miseducation of the Negro.

"In chameleon-like fashion the Negro has taken up almost everything religious which has come along instead of thinking for himself. "

– Dr. Carter G. Woodson, The Miseducation of the Negro.


"The Negro has been so busy doing what he is told to do that he has not stopped long enough to think about the meaning of these things."

– Dr. Carter G. Woodson, The Miseducation of the Negro.