Battle Cries of the American Flags

About the Book

About the Author

It would in some measure relieve my embarrassment if I could even, in a slight degree, feel myself worthy of any honor for writing this book; yet I have been called from the deep black belt of the South, from among my humble people, and yet it may not be inappropriate for me to suggest that it seems to me that one of the most vital questions that touch our American life is how to bring the strong, the wealthy, and the learned into helpful touch with the very poorest, the most ignorant, and the humblest, and at the same time make one appreciate the vitalizing, strengthening influence of others. How can we make this mansion on yon Beacon Street feel and see the need of the spirits in the lowliest of American people? This problem Harvard University is solving, not by bringing itself down, but by bringing the masses up.