The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.11, page 288, Aug. 1911, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers prejudice is to injure the white man. If the white man tries to terrorize a certain class of Negroes these people think that the thing to do is to terrorize the white man in retuM. Now, there are two things ~ would say in regard to this. First, that is the oIct vicious circle—if ~ injure my neighbor of course my neighbor Is bound to injure me in return and calf course there is no end to that pursuit. No civilization was ever built up on that. On the contrary civilization, especially our civilization, has been built up on the principle of knots retaliating, of not doing evil to other men as they do to you. On the other hand while ~ believe in imitating him, not In the evil things, but in the good, for the people who curse the Negro are not the best white people but the worst. The best white people are those who are seeking to educate the Negro, to build him up, to make him a Christian and they are the people who do not reply with retaIiatiOn but return good for evil rather than eerie for evil. The International, 4 (July 19~), 30-3~. This was one of a series of replies to questions in ''A Symposium on Race Prejudice.'' Among other participants were John Spargo and the sociologist Edward A. Ross. Emmett lay Scott to Wilford H. Smith Tuskegee Institute, Alabama August- and, 1 ~ Personal. My clear Mr. Smith: ~ have tam?] becoming just a little bit troubled with reference to the UIrich maker. You have seen how the Guardian has featured this matter in its issue of July band and with. It has worked that United Press Special for all it was worth with distorted headlines and comments calculated to do us great harm. Some of the Negro newspapers are following the Guardian's lead, including of course HaIry Smith's paper. You probably have also seen that paper. ~ now find that a number of colored newspapers, including the Nashv~He Clarion, and others which have been more or less friendly to us, are carrying little editorial notes reading about as follows: ''When the case against UIrich was called for trim, Dr. Washington 288