I have often wondered if there was a white institution in this country whose students would have welcomed the incoming of more than a hundred companions of another race in the cordial way that these black students at Hampton welcomed the red ones.
Reflecting on the integration of Native American students at Hampton Institute, Washington poses a rhetorical question about the unique hospitality shown by Black students.
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The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.
If my life in the past has meant anything in the lifting up of my people and the bringing about of better relations between your race and mine, I assure you from this day it will mean doubly more.
This problem Harvard University is solving, not by bringing itself down, but by bringing the masses up.
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