Ever since I have been old enough to think for myself, I have entertained the idea that, notwithstanding the cruel wrongs inflicted upon us, the black man got nearly as much out of slavery as the white man did.
From his autobiography, expressing his long-held belief about the reciprocal, though different, impacts of slavery on both Black and white people.
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Wherever our graduates go, the changes which soon begin to appear in the buying of land, improving homes, saving money, in education, and in high moral characters are remarkable.
This country demands that every race shall measure itself by the American standard.
We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the school is to be judged by its graduates.
This problem Harvard University is solving, not by bringing itself down, but by bringing the masses up.