While this is not yet complete by any means, I think I may say, without egotism, and I have been told by many of our most influential ministers, that my words had much to do with starting a demand for the placing of a higher type of men in the pulpit.
Washington claims that his words contributed significantly to the demand for better leadership in the church.
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The hurtful influences of the institution were not by any means confined to the Negro.
In order to defend and protect the women and children who were left on the plantations when the white males went to war, the slaves would have laid down their lives.
He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.