Carter G. Woodson Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Education, Giving, Democracy

• Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Real, Men, Two

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.126, Book Tree

• You must give your own story to the world.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Giving, Stories, World

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