In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
“In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.”
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
“In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.”
In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.
I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
I have the courage of my convictions.
The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me in three different classes - but above all, he taught me lessons in moral, physical, and intellectual courage that I have tried to apply in later life.
If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It is not a case of ethics; it is a plain case of necessity. The method by which this may be done is, first, for the American Negro to achieve a new economic solidarity.
Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.