Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“we must be as reliable and as responsible as it is possible for the people of any other race to be.”
- Source
- Character Building
- Date
- 1902
Meaning of “we must be as reliable and as responsible…”
Washington makes reliability and responsibility central to the institutional and racial-uplift argument of the address, tying opportunity to dependable conduct.
Where does it come from?
Character Building, “The Importance of Being Reliable,” Project Gutenberg #60484. The race language belongs to Washington’s historical response to discriminatory judgments and employment conditions.
