...internal improvements, social conditions, or universal education, his theme was still the same : "Equal ! That is the word ! On that word I plant myself and...every child born on earth to have the opportunity 'to bourgeon out all that there is within him.' " It was this overflowing human sympathy that made him...

...his last word to the people of his State, he probably would not have changed a letter of it: "EQUAL! That is the word! On that word I plant myself and...opportunity 'to burgeon out all there is within him.' " It was also singularly fitting that his funeral was held on Easter Sunday, the day commemorative...

...refuge of the oppressed of all the world and the hope of this age and of all ages to come. . . . "Equal! That is the word. On that word I plant myself and...earth to have the opportunity 'to burgeon out all that there is within him."' Herein we have the keynote not only of his professed political faith, but...

...internal improvements, social conditions, or universal education, his theme was still the same : "Equal! That is the word ! On that word I plant myself and...every child born on earth to have the opportunity 'to bourgeon out all that there is within him.' ' It was this overflowing human sympathy that made him...

...true incarnation of the new North Carolina, pledged the state to the ideal in these words : "The royal right of every child born on earth to have the opportunity to burgeon out all there is within him." And Walter Hines Page has phrased it thus : "In any scheme of man culture, one man must be regarded...

...monument in Capitol Square at Raleigh bears, among other inscriptions, the statement of his creed : "The equal right of every child born on earth to have...opportunity to burgeon out all there is within him." Few men have died in the State so universally regretted. However, his labor had not been in vain. His...

...Jeffersons and Lees and Raphaels and Tennysons may be discovered and developed." We are educating all now; "the equal right of every child born on earth to have...opportunity to burgeon out all there is within him" is no longer a matter of debate. And with the education of all the people we shall develop at last...

...died in your town, Senator — speaking in benalf of public education, and these are his last words : The equal right of every child born on earth to have...opportunity to burgeon out all there is within him. The creed of our American democracy has perhaps never been better expressed than in that one short...

...its poison into the very vitals of the problem" (Ferguson, 1962, p. 2). Governor Aycock affirmed "the right of every child born on earth to have the opportunity to burgeon out all that is within him." Aycock's philosophy was reflected in that of CC Spaulding, the president of a...

...East. A new day. A day of equal opportunity. Equal. That is the word. On that word I plant myself. The equal right of every child born on earth to have the opportunity to burgeon out all that there is within him." He turned suddenly from the crowd sitting so enthralled they did not realize...