Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Phelps with the graduate English part of the Commencement Exercises. Johnson discussed the present condition of the negroes in the United States, deploring the ever-increasing attacks made against their political and social right and life, especially since the Great War. He asserted that the Negro's faith in the rightcons purpose of the Federal Government was sagging as the black population found itself ever more closely surrounded with a sentiment of antagonism intentionally unfair...
...said in part: "Since their emancipation from slavery the masses of American Negroes have lived by the light of a simple but deeply moving faith. They have believed in the love and providence of a just and holy God; they have believed in the principles of democracy and in the righteous purpose of the Federal Government; and they have believed in the disposition of the American people as a whole and in the long run to be fair in all their dealings...
...spite of disfranchisement and peonage, mob violence and public contempt, they have kept this faith and have allowed themselves to hope with the optimism of Booker T. Washington that in proportion as they grew in intelligence, wealth, and self-respect, they should win the confidence and esteem of their fellow white Americans, and should gradually acquire the responsibilities and privileges of full American citizenship...
...because there is a moral order in the universe; and if there be such a moral order it must be for every man's ultimate welfare to conform thereto. Whether he call his belief in a moral order, and the duties it involves, a philosophy, a theology or a faith, he throws away all that is best worth having if he fails to act upon it; and if he permits himself to be beguiled into a departure from it by thinking that he cannot be much to blame for doing what many others do he certainly is not wise...
...failure of the Day now depend upon the Weather-man and the Junior Ushers. The former, as the daily weather reports indicate, is of a highly temperamental nature which passes all human understanding. In his case reasoning will have to be abandoned in favor of a water-soaked, imploring faith. But the latter, closer within reach, may be reminded how much depends upon them. If, as seems probable at present, the Weather-man has turned on completely all the spigots on the floor above and gone to sleep leaving them running, the work of the Junior Ushers is tremendously increased...