Besides, deep down in their hearts there was a strange and peculiar attachment to “old Marster” and “old Missus,” and to their children, which they found it hard to think of breaking off.
Washington explores the complex emotional ties that some enslaved people felt towards their former owners, even after gaining freedom.
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By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail, and in the last analysis mere sentiment counts for little.
The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.
In the economy of God there is but one standard by which an individual can succeed—there is but one for a race.
Despite superficial and temporary signs which might lead one to entertain a contrary opinion, there was never a time when I felt more hopeful for the race than I do at the present.