Read the quotation from Booker T. Washington's 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech. In the great leap from slavery to freedom . . . the masses of us are to live by the production of our hands . . . we shall prosper . . . as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor. According to this quotation, Washington believed that
Answer
A
hard work was not more important than education.
B
people could not prosper from common labor.
C
people had to prosper in order to achieve freedom.
D
hard work had its own kind of dignity.
Explanation
Washington says people would prosper as they learned to “dignify and glorify common labor.” This means he believed work done by hand had value and dignity of its own. The quotation supports the idea that hard work had its own kind of dignity, not that common labor prevented prosperity.
AI-written and checked against the verified answer.