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.
Washington urges investment in the African American community, highlighting their potential to contribute to economic growth.
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No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government.
The hurtful influences of the institution were not by any means confined to the Negro.
When freedom came, the slaves were almost as well fitted to begin life anew as the master, except in the matter of book-learning and ownership of property.
As soon as it was learned that he was not an American Negro, all the signs of indignation disappeared.