In those days, and later as a young man, I used to try to picture in my imagination the feelings and ambitions of a white boy with absolutely no limit placed upon his aspirations and activities.
Reflecting on his youth, Washington describes his early imaginings of the unburdened aspirations of white boys.
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The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.
How shall we make the mansion on yon Beacon Street feel and see the need of the spirits in the lowliest cabin in Alabama cotton-fields or Louisiana sugar-bottoms?
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.
By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail, and in the last analysis mere sentiment counts for little.