Education is meant to make us change for the better, to make us more thoughtful, to make us so broad that we will not seek to help one man because he belongs to this race or that race of people, and seek to hinder another man because he does not belong to this race or that race of people.
Washington describes education as a transformative force that encourages broad-mindedness and altruism across racial lines.
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This country demands that every race shall measure itself by the American standard.
In the economy of God there is but one standard by which an individual can succeed—there is but one for a race.
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?
By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail, and in the last analysis mere sentiment counts for little.