Children Learn More From What You Are

I Believe That All Men, Black And Brown And White, Are Brothers, Varying Through Time And Opportunity, In Form And Gift And Feature, But Differing In No Essential Particular, And Alike In Soul And The Possibility Of Infinite Development.

So Often Do You See Collegians Enter Life With High Resolve And Lofty Purpose And Then Watch Them Shrink And Shrink To Sordid, Selfish, Shrewd Plodders, Full Of Distrust And Sneers.

I Insist That The Object Of All True Education Is Not To Make Men Carpenters, It Is To Make Carpenters Men.

Now Is The Accepted Time, Not Tomorrow, Not Some More Convenient Season. It Is Today That Our Best Work Can Be Done.

How Hard A Thing Is Life To The Lowly And Yet How Human And Real Is It? And All This Life And Love And Strife And Failure, - Is It The Twilight Of Nightfall Or The Flush Of Some Faint-dawning Day? The Answer Lies In Each Of Us. For Somewhere In Your Past ... Somewhere Some 100 Years Ago?there Rose From The Smoldering Ashes Of Slavery?a Proud And Humble Family Who Suffered And Struggled With Life. A Family Who Found The Strength To Endure All The Indignities Of Life In America, And That Family Had The Hope For A Taste Of Her Bounties In The Future.