I believe in the free public training of both the hands and the mind of every child born of woman.
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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