And you will find that the person who is most truly educated is the one who is going to be kindest, and is going to act in the gentlest manner toward persons who are unfortunate, toward the race or the individual that is most despised.
Washington posits that the most educated individuals are those who show kindness to the less fortunate.
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Despite this disappointment, however, I determined that I would learn something, anyway.
The hurtful influences of the institution were not by any means confined to the Negro.
Even the most ignorant members of my race on the remote plantations felt in their hearts, with a certainty that admitted of no doubt, that the freedom of the slaves would be the one great result of the war, if the Northern armies conquered.