When you go out into the world and meet with such cases as this, try to make the people see that it is a great deal better to call their small public school by a name which truly represents it, than to call it a high-school or an academy.
Washington encourages individuals to advocate for honest naming of schools to better represent their true nature.
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I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
As soon as it was learned that he was not an American Negro, all the signs of indignation disappeared.
He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.