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November 14, 2005
Booker T. Washington
Wow this guy is amazing! He is a genious. He can speak to every auidence and get through to every person. His stance to only promote instead of negate is the greatest approach to any situation. I wish I could have been there to hear the speech. The best part of the speech to me was in "The Atlanta Exposition Address" paragraph 10. It states:
"Nearly sixteen millions of hands will aid you in pulling the load upward, or they will pull against you the load downward. We shall constitute one-third and more of the ignorance and crime of the South, or one-third its intelligence and progress; we shall contribute one-third to the business and industrial prosperity of the South, or we shall prove a veritable body of death, stagnating, depressing, retarding every effort to advance the body politic."
A nation should understand that we need every single person to be a thriving community. A country whose people are separted is not going to accomplish what it could. In the end we all have the same fate and if we could all work together we could make this place on Earth a little better to live in. If we would just stop being so selfish than maybe things would be just a little easier. Especially in this country where the individual is of higher priority than family.
Posted by MichelleKoss at November 14, 2005 07:26 PM
Comments
This is so true, Michelle. People hardly do anything for or with their families anymore, and I have to say, people who have a family as a support system are so much more successful than people who have to strugggle on their own. Washington emphasizes success as a whole and whether we have a strong family or not, if we can encouage eachother to share the weight of duties within a community, so much more could be accomplished. I think that if even half of a town is undeducated then the rest of the town is burdened in having to pick up their slack so we might as well stay united in our struggles.
Posted by: Erin Waite at November 16, 2005 10:56 AM
Good points made, Michelle. The question is still as relevant today as it would have been a few decades earlier. Yet our generation has lost itself in trying to be unique by looking just like everyone else. It's easy for people to stay where they're comfortable - the responsibility to move an entire generation and its future is huge. Perhaps thats why it takes more than ideals to make change happen.
Posted by: Neha at November 16, 2005 01:07 PM