Booker T. Washington Quote

To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say 'Cast down your bucket where you are.'


The Story of My Life and Work (ed. 1900)


To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations...

To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations...

To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations...

To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations...