Carter G. Woodson

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits. ”

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. ”

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. ”

The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself. ”

The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there. ”

In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money. ”

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. ”

The mere imparting of information is not education. ”

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. ”

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race. ”