Every persecuted individual and race should get much consolation out of the great human law, which is universal and eternal, that merit, no matter under what skin found, is, in the long run, recognized and rewarded.
Washington offers a universal principle, asserting that merit, regardless of race, will ultimately be acknowledged and rewarded.
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The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.
By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail, and in the last analysis mere sentiment counts for little.
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.
This problem Harvard University is solving, not by bringing itself down, but by bringing the masses up.