He had shown the way.

Time and patience and encouragement and work would do the rest.
It was then more clearly than ever before that I understood the patriotic significance of Mr.Washington's work.

It is this conception of it and of him that I have ever since carried with me.

It is on this that his claim to our gratitude rests.
To teach the Negro to read, whether English, or Greek, or Hebrew, butters no parsnips.

To make the Negro work, that is what his master did in one way and hunger has done in another; yet both these left Southern life where they found it.