Carolina Quotes
The most sacred thing in the commonwealth and to the commonwealth is the child, whether it be your child or the child of the dull-faced mother of the hovel.
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
- form
- speech
- work
- The Forgotten Man
- year
- 1897
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