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    Booker T. Washington Delivers the 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech
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    1. acsolomonik 30 Aug 2017
      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.

      Here he is explaining the message that the white man doesn't want to accept, that both races can prosper from each other and live without conflict if the whites would accept the help. They want to do the jobs that no one else wants to do and ultimately help the economy, a lot like the situation we see today with illegal immigrants.

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