In nine cases out of ten, the person who cultivates the habit of looking on the dark side of life is the little person, the miserable person, the one who is weak in mind, heart and purpose.
Washington critiques a negative mindset, associating it with weakness and a lack of progress.
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This country demands that every race shall measure itself by the American standard.
In the economy of God there is but one standard by which an individual can succeed—there is but one for a race.
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?
By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail, and in the last analysis mere sentiment counts for little.