The negro possesses two remarkable qualifications: one is that he is imitative, and the other is that he has got pride; he wants to dress well; he wants to do as well as anybody else does when you get him aroused, and with these two qualifications I have very great hopes for him in the future.
Q.What do you think of his intellectual and moral qualities and his capacity for development?
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There are individual instances I know of where negroes have received and taken a good education.

As a class, it would probably be several generations, at any rate, before they would be able to compete with the Caucasian.

I believe that the negro is capable of receiving an ordinary English education, and there are instances where they enter professions and become good lawyers.

For instance, I know in the town of Greenville, Miss., right across the river from me, a negro attorney, who is a very intelligent man, and I heard one of the leading attorneys in Greenville say he would almost have anybody on the opposite side of a case rather than he would that negro.