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 had its own kind of dignity.
B
hard work was more important than education.
C
people could not prosper from common labor.
D
people had to prosper in order to achieve freedom.
Explanation
Washington says that people would prosper as they learned to “dignify and glorify common labor.” This means he believed work done by hand had value and dignity. The quotation does not say that work mattered more than education or that people had to prosper before they could be free.
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