Then we want to have you to learn to govern your actions, not alone for the sake of the result which they will have upon yourself and those who are near and dear to you, but for the sake of your influence upon all with whom you will come in contact.
Washington encourages individuals to govern their actions with consideration for their broader influence on others, not just for personal gain.
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In order to defend and protect the women and children who were left on the plantations when the white males went to war, the slaves would have laid down their lives.
He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.
The picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.
I cannot remember having slept in a bed until after our family was declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation.