In fact, I consider that there is nothing so empty and unsatisfactory as mere abstract public speaking; but from my early childhood I have had a desire to do something to make the world better, and then to be able to speak to the world about that thing.
He describes his lifelong ambition to effect positive change and then communicate about those efforts.
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As soon as it was learned that he was not an American Negro, all the signs of indignation disappeared.
I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.
I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.