The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer: Containing the Best Prose and Poetic Selections by and About the Negro Race, With Programs Arranged for Special Entertainments (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

Excerpt from The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer: Containing the Best Prose and Poetic Selections by and About the Negro Race, With Programs Arranged for Special Entertainments

V hat the children read the fathers will be lieve. What the fathers believe will constitute the ideals of the race. Therefore nothing is more important to the development of any people than the content of those printed pages on which they form their youthful minds. Bishop Spaulding said, The voices that spoke to me in my boyhood are now speaking through me to the world. Let those voices speak of self-reliance, noble striving, and ambition for high achievement, and the quality of the adult life. Will generally be of the same character. Let those voices suggest low self-esteem or mediocre life aims, and the later manhood will be correspondingly low in thought, feeling, and conduct.

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