Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes

It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.

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• It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • Men
  • May
  • Fool