- Sep 2024
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ardor
ardor: enthusiasm or passion
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When sticks andstones and beasts form the sole environment of a people, their attitude islargely one of determined opposition to and conquest of natural forces.
When the environment that the African Americans were placed into beat them down, of course they are going to be resentful and opposed to how they are being treated.
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History is but the recordof such group-leadership; and yet how infinitely changeful
Group-leadership has changed the route of our history so much and the opinions of those leaders impact how the world runs.
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Honest and earnest criticism fromthose whose interests are most nearlytouched,—criticism of writers byreaders,—this is the soul of democ-racy and the safeguard of modernsociety
The criticisms and honesty mean the most from the people who hold whatever the conversation topic to heart and really care about the salvation of the program.
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demagogues
demagogues: a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power
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In the North the feeling has several times forced itself intowords, that Mr. Washington’s counsels of submission overlooked certainelements of true manhood, and that his educational programme was un-necessarily narrow.
W: What element did Washington overlook?
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hitherto
hitherto: until now or until the point in time under discussion.
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singleness of vision
reminds me of tunnel vision. visualizing a person having blinders on and only focusing on one thing.
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shrewd
shrewd: having or showing sharp powers of judgement; astute.
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In all things purely social we can be as separate as the five fin-gers, and yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
Everyone is able to think their own thoughts and have their own opinions which may divide them like "fingers" but things that will move their society foward and benefit everyone will make everyone stand together as "one hand".
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It startled the nation to hear a Negro advocating such a programmeafter many decades of bitter complaint; it startled and won the applauseof the South
I think this means that since segregation and putting down of African Americans was very prominent during this time, they thought that any time an African American spoke out, it would be about the lack of rights and freedoms but they were surprised when it was in support of the education systems being put in place.
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His programme of industrial education, conciliationof the South, and submission and silence as to civil and political rights,was not wholly original; the Free Negroes from 1830 up to war-time hadstriven to build industrial schools, and the American Missionary Associ-ation had from the first taught various trades; and Price and others hadsought a way of honorable alliance with the best of the Southerners. ButMr. Washington first indissolubly linked these things; he put enthusiasm,unlimited energy, and perfect faith into his programme, and changed itfrom a by-path into a veritable Way of Life.
Washington had created various educational programs in the south that he put a lot of effort into since he knew it would change the way of life for his people.
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ascendancy
ascendency means the occupation of a position of dominant power or influence.
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