If we would save the race, and lift it up, here is the great opportunity around which, in a large measure, individual, organized, religious and secular effort should centre for the next fifty years.
Washington calls for focused efforts to uplift the African American race through collective action over the next fifty years.
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Wherever our graduates go, the changes which soon begin to appear in the buying of land, improving homes, saving money, in education, and in high moral characters are remarkable.
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The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.
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