3 quotations linked to The Future of the American Negro by or associated with Booker T. Washington, with source notes, explanations and related topics.
Education, productive work, economic opportunity, principle, responsibility, race relations and Washington’s strategy for advancement after emancipation.
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“I may be wrong.”
The admission places a limit on Washington’s own policy claims and models intellectual uncertainty rather than presenting judgment as infallible.
Source note: The Future of the American Negro, Chapter VIII; Project Gutenberg #26507. The sentence appears in Washington’s closing policy discussion immediately after his summary of dangers and immediately before his qualification that he may also be in some degree right.
“stand by principle at all hazards.”
Washington distinguishes tactical cooperation from questions of right and wrong, where he advises maintaining principle despite possible cost.
Source note: The Future of the American Negro, Chapter VIII; Project Gutenberg #26507. This short excerpt appears in Washington’s closing policy discussion, where he distinguishes ordinary political cooperation from cases involving a question of right or wrong and advises standing by principle in those cases.
“an intelligent producer as well as a consumer.”
Washington argues that post-emancipation advancement requires access to skills and productive economic roles, not consumption or formal status alone.
Source note: The Future of the American Negro, Chapter III; Project Gutenberg #26507. This is a deliberately short excerpt from Washington’s 1899 argument about becoming a producer as well as a consumer; historical racial context is retained in the source note.