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The negro question will be settled when the education of the white man is complete.
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Hoar posits that the resolution of racial issues depends on the education of white individuals.
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But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
It will be better for his reputation that the chapter of that history which relates to him shall be written by a historian with a full and clear sense of those faults and infirmities, concealing nothing, and extenuating nothing.
The irrepressible conflict had to be fought out.
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