The part of the speech which seems to arouse the wildest and most sensational enthusiasm was that in which I thanked the President for his recognition of the Negro in his appointments during the Spanish-American war.
Washington identifies the most enthusiastically received portion of his speech as his expression of gratitude for presidential appointments of African Americans.
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The more I come into contact with wealthy people, the more I believe that they are growing in the direction of looking upon their money simply as an instrument which God has placed in their hand for doing good with.
How shall we make the mansion on yon Beacon Street feel and see the need of the spirits in the lowliest cabin in Alabama cotton-fields or Louisiana sugar-bottoms?
The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.
By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail, and in the last analysis mere sentiment counts for little.