"No great enterprise, at its inception, or in its early life ever escaped the sneers, the
slanderous utterances, or the woeful anticipations of petty men.
In the building up of our City, we have been met, at times, with base calumny and direful prophecy. Like the proud athlete, conscious of his power, taunted by some boastful weakling, Roanoke, smiling at her defamers, walks steadily forward to take her place among the industrial centers of the earth."
Roanoke Booster Speech (circa 1890)
Think those who wrote that speech yesterday would believe today there are still petty men who do not believe?
Industries change, the greater potential of Roanoke has not.
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