"If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto."

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

Carter G. Woodson

#Strong Quotes #Ghetto Quotes #Hands Quotes

“You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little potbelly and a bald spot.”
“Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for laughs or a tragedian plays for tears. Theirs is a new art form, exclusive to America and bewilderingly successful. In place of traditional conservative ideology, they offer their audience partisan belligerence and a complete package of mail-order hatreds, designed for the conceptually and ethically impaired.”
“Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they would have done.”
“What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did.”
“When there is some fear about accounting and growth and the economy, food stocks are a decent place to be, ... This company has been through a bit of a restructuring the last couple of years. Management is doing a great job. The company is improving and people are buying chocolate. So, what a great week to buy it.”
“You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud of it. If one had a right to be proud of anything, it would be of a continued decent tradition back of one.”

Source : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”
“Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us.”
“Even though we were influenced by American culture and music, we like the rest of Europe have been colonized with that in the post-war period. At the same time there's a sense of dirty earthiness and Europeanness and Britishness in it as well.”

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