“Shame to us if we blink the evils. They are there. Shame to us if we fear to face the problem. It is there and to say that it is not there will not prove its absence.
Face the problem, realize its gravity, and then approach it in a spirit not merely of determination to solve it, but of hearty desire to solve it with justice to all. With malice to none to solve it in a spirit of broad kindliness and charity, in a spirit that will keep us ever in mind that if we are to succeed at all, it must be by each doing the best of his capacity, his own business, and yet by each, remembering that in a sense he is also his brother's keeper.”
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