Washington, for giving me the opportunity to help a good
cause. It is a privilege to have a share in it. We in Boston are
constantly indebted to you for doing _our_ work." My experience in
securing money convinces me that the first type of man is growing more
rare all the time, and that the latter type is increasing; that is,
that, more and more, rich people are coming to regard men and women
who apply to them for help for worthy objects, not as beggars, but as
agents for doing their work.
In the city of Boston I have rarely called upon an individual for
funds that I have not been thanked for calling, usually before I could
get an opportunity to thank the donor for the money. In that city the
donors seem to feel, in a large degree, that an honour is being
conferred upon them in their being permitted to give. Nowhere else
have I met with, in so large a measure, this fine and Christlike
spirit as in the city of Boston, although there are many notable
instances of it outside that city. I repeat my belief that the world
is growing in the direction of giving. I repeat that the main rule by
which I have been guided in collecting money is to do my full duty in
regard to giving people who have money an opportunity for help.
In the early years of the Tuskegee school I walked the streets or
travelled country roads in the North for days and days without
receiving a dollar.
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