Progress and Achievements of the Colored People: Containing the Story of the Wonderful Advancement of the Colored Americans—the Most Marvelous in the History of Nations—Their Past Accomplishments, Together With Their Present-day Opportunities and a Glimpse Into the Future for Further Developments—the Dawn of a Triumphant Era. A Handbook for Self-improvement Which Leads to Greater Success
John Stuart Mill · en
It is the mother’s right that what she is doing every day should be
appreciated and that she should be assisted in every manner possible.
She can never be fully repaid, for hers is the one position requiring
constant care and sacrifice, but her burden can be made as easy as
possible, and that will more than satisfy her. A wonderful creature is
the mother.
MOTHER THE HIGHEST TYPE OF HUMANITY
A broader right of the mother,—and this is one which she may with all
propriety assert herself, as she is beginning to do wherever the best
and highest thought prevails—is that she is looked upon by the world as
being the highest type in example and in fruition of all humanity. She
is the extreme of what God has made in human beings of the one who is
carrying out, better and better with each age, the wonderful scheme of
creation and evolution. She is no longer the mere beaten bearer of her
species. She is the keynote; she is the producer and hers is the first
guiding hand.
THE FUTURE OF THE CHILD, THE FUTURE OF THE RACE
The future of the child is the future of the race. What the future of
the child shall be depends altogether upon the men and women of the
present. What thus becomes our vast responsibility is plain to see. It
rests, not upon parents alone, but upon the whole community.
There is no greater problem before thinking and aspiring humanity and,
certainly, no finer one than that of making the growing generation what
it should be and there is, as assuredly, none which appeals to us with
such overwhelming force, both with regard to our own welfare and the
welfare of those who fill our hearts and in whom our hopes are centered.
It is one involved alike in the parental instinct and that of
patriotism. Our children must be so reared as to develop into good sons
and daughters and good citizens as well. The keynote of all progress and
advancement in the good of the world is centered here. Each generation
should excel the one preceding it, and can be made to do so if the
parents of today and the communities of today are not neglectful. Always
today must be determined the nature of tomorrow. Parents and governments
have a glorious responsibility bestowed upon them. They determine what
all coming history shall be, what shall be the future of any nation and
the degree of the world’s happiness.
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