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Every Race And Every Nation Should Be Judged By The Best It Has Been Able To Produce, Not By The Worst.

Nothing Great Or Enduring, Especially In Music, Has Ever Sprung Full-fledged And Unprecedented From The Brain Of Any Master; The Best He Gives To The World He Gathers From The Hearts Of The People, And Runs It Through The Alembic Of His Genius.

Any Musical Person Who Has Never Heard A Negro Congregation Under The Spell Of Religious Fervor Sing These Old Songs Has Missed One Of The Most Thrilling Emotions Which The Human Heart May Experience.

There Are A Great Many Colored People Who Are Ashamed Of The Cake-walk, But I Think They Ought To Be Proud Of It.

I Do Not See How A People That Can Find In Its Conscience Any Excuse Whatever For Slowly Burning To Death A Human Being, Or For Tolerating Such An Act, Can Be Entrusted With The Salvation Of A Race.