The training of the schools we need to-day more than ever,—the training of deft hands, quick eyes and ears, and above all the broader, deeper, higher culture of gifted minds and pure hearts.
From his seminal work, this passage emphasizes the comprehensive educational needs of Black people, encompassing both vocational skills and higher intellectual and moral culture.
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Their appearance was uncouth, their language funny, but their hearts were human and their singing stirred men with a mighty power.
Let the ears of a guilty people tingle with truth, and seventy millions sigh for the righteousness which exalteth nations, in this drear day when human brotherhood is mockery and a snare.
But whichever it is, the meaning is always clear: that sometime, somewhere, men will judge men by their souls and not by their skins.