As the institution grows larger, we do not want to lose the spirit of self-sacrifice, the spirit of usefulness which the graduates and the students who have gone out from here have shown.
Washington warns against losing the spirit of self-sacrifice as the institution grows.
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The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements, and temptations to battle with that are little known to those not situated as he is.
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.
He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.
Even the most ignorant members of my race on the remote plantations felt in their hearts, with a certainty that admitted of no doubt, that the freedom of the slaves would be the one great result of the war, if the Northern armies conquered.