If anywhere there are efforts tending to curtail the fullest growth of the Negro, let these efforts be turned into stimulating, encouraging, and making him the most useful and intelligent citizen.
Washington calls for efforts to uplift the African American community, transforming challenges into opportunities.
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I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
I cannot remember having slept in a bed until after our family was declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation.
Until that question was asked it had never occurred to me that there was no period of my life that was devoted to play.
The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority.