Our graduates go to work in every section of the South, and whatever knowledge might be obtained in the library would serve to assist in the elevation of the whole Negro race.
From his autobiography, this explains the broader societal impact of a library at Tuskegee Institute.
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This country demands that every race shall measure itself by the American standard.
By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail, and in the last analysis mere sentiment counts for little.
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