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Tested by Patience

We are to be tested in our patience, in our
forbearance, in our perseverance, in our power


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to endure wrong, to withstand temptation, to
economize, to acquire and use skill; in our
ability to succeed in commerce, to disregard
the superficial for the real, the appearance for
the substance. To be great, and yet the servant
of all,—this, this is the passport to all
that is best in the life of our republic, and the
Negro must possess it or be debarred.

Alumni Dinner (Harvard University).