The close, careful, and minute investigation that he always makes in order to be sure that every dollar that he gives will do the most good—an investigation that is just as searching as if he were investing money in a business enterprise—convinces me that the growth in this direction is most encouraging.
Washington admires the thoroughness with which wealthy donors ensure their contributions are effective.
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In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely…
Until that question was asked it had never occurred to me that there was no period of my life that was devoted to play.
I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.