Carolina Quotes
The forgotten man remained forgotten. The aristocratic scheme of education had passed him by. To a less extent, but still to the extent of hundreds of thousands, the ecclesiastical scheme had passed him by.
Walter Hines Page Carolinian
Source
"The Forgotten Man," address at the State Normal and Industrial School, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1897; quoted in Burton J. Hendrick, The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, vol. I (1922), ch. III
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- speech
- work
- The Forgotten Man
- year
- 1897
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