Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

Carter G. Woodson

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• Students
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• Curse

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• As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • Black
  • Change
  • Struggle