But since for some years to come, at least, it must of necessity be impossible for all of our young people to get all the education possible, or even all they may want to get, I believe they should apply their energies to getting such a training as will be best fitted to supply their immediate needs.
He suggests that young people should focus on training that meets their immediate needs due to educational constraints.
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He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.
I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
These discussions showed that they understood the situation, and that they kept themselves informed of events by what was termed the “grape-vine” telegraph.
The hurtful influences of the institution were not by any means confined to the Negro.