How often I have wanted to say to white students that they lift themselves up in proportion as they help to lift others, and the more unfortunate the race, and the lower in the scale of civilization, the more does one raise one’s self by giving the assistance.
Washington expresses a desire to convey to white students the principle that assisting less fortunate races elevates the helper.
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Despite this disappointment, however, I determined that I would learn something, anyway.
In order to defend and protect the women and children who were left on the plantations when the white males went to war, the slaves would have laid down their lives.
Until that question was asked it had never occurred to me that there was no period of my life that was devoted to play.