It rests largely with you to change public sentiment among our people in all these directions, to a point where we shall feel that we must be as reliable and as responsible as it is possible for the people of any other race to be.
He stresses the importance of changing public sentiment to achieve reliability and responsibility within the community.
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When freedom came, the slaves were almost as well fitted to begin life anew as the master, except in the matter of book-learning and ownership of property.
I can scarcely imagine any torture, except, perhaps, the pulling of a tooth, that is equal to that caused by putting on a new flax shirt for the first time.
No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government.
But taking place at the time it did, and for the reason that it did, no one could ever make me believe that my mother was guilty of thieving.