George Washington Was No “Small American,” President Declares Jewish Daily Bulletin
President Coolidge again attacked race prejudice in his address on George Washington at the convention of the National Education Association here.
“Envy, malice, uncharitableness. class jealousies, race prejudices and international calumnies are not realities, they do not abide, they are only the fictions of unenlightened comprehension. Those who preach them are not safe advisors and not sound leaders. Nothing but discord and disaster at home and abroad can result from following these policies,” President. Coolidge declared.
“Washington was the antithesis of all this. His writings and teaching breathe a higher, broader purpose, a more inspired leadership. No man clung more tenaciously to what he believed was right or was prepared to make greater sacrifices in its support But he viewed the right as a universal principle to be applied not only to himself but to others, not only to his own state but to the nation, not only to his own countrymen. but to foreigners. There was nothing about him of the small American,” the president declared.
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