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Booker T. Washington: Casting down your bucket among my people, helping and encouraging them as you are doing on these grounds, and to…

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Casting down your bucket among my people, helping and encouraging them as you are doing on these grounds, and to education of head, hand, and heart, you will find that they will buy your surplus land, make blossom the waste places in your fields, and run your factories.
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Booker T. Washington

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Washington urges investment in the African American community, highlighting their potential to contribute to economic growth.

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