Biography Booker T. Washington Speech

Steffy Zambrano
Information Technology High School
Ms. Hyde
English 6
04|09|08
Booker T. Washington "Atlanta Compromise"

“To those of the white race...Cast down your bucket where you are."Cast it down among the eight millions of Negroes whose habits you know, whose fidelity and love you have tested in days when to have proved treacherous meant the ruin of your firesides. Cast down your bucket among these people who have, without strikes and labour wars, tilled your fields, cleared your forests, builded your railroads and cities, and brought forth treasures from the bowels of the earth, and helped make possible this magnificent representation of the progress of the South.” Cast down your bucket to the people who need help and encouraging. Cast Down your bucket the people who have been there. “As we have proved our loyalty to you in the past, in nursing your children, watching by the sick-bed of your mothers and fathers, and often following them with tear-dimmed eyes to their graves, so in the future, in our humble way, we shall stand by you with a devotion that no foreigner can approach.” We will be there for you even if it means putting our life in danger. We are the people who protect our kids. But as long as we are separate but equal… There should be boundaries when it deals with equality. "In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress."

Sources:
- http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1895washington-atlanta.html