Political Quotes

“I rise in support of H.R. 1012, the Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site Establishment Act of 2003. I want to thank the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton) for introducing this legislation, and I want to thank the committee for bringing it to the floor. Mr. Speaker, Carter G. Woodson wrote once that his father told him when he was growing up and his father could not read and write that learning to accept insult, to compromise on principle, to mislead your fellow man or to betray your people was to lose your soul. Dr. Carter G. Woodson has long been one of my favorite heroes. I first learned of him as a pre-teen, studying African American history at a small church in the little town where I grew up in Arkansas, to be a academician, teacher, lecturer, author and founder of what we now observe as African American History Month. Mr. Speaker, I took a class in college titled Negro History. One of the books we used, which was required reading and a textbook, was 'The Negro in our History,' written by Dr. Carter G. Woodson.”