You can easily understand that where people are not getting steady employment--but a job this week and a job next week, and perhaps nothing the week after--it is impossible for them to put money in the bank, impossible to acquire homes and property, and to settle down as reliable, prosperous citizens.
Washington emphasizes the challenges faced by individuals without steady jobs in achieving financial stability and home ownership.
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This country demands that every race shall measure itself by the American standard.
Wherever our graduates go, the changes which soon begin to appear in the buying of land, improving homes, saving money, in education, and in high moral characters are remarkable.
The more I come into contact with wealthy people, the more I believe that they are growing in the direction of looking upon their money simply as an instrument which God has placed in their hand for doing good with.
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