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Booker T. Washington: major views 
expressed in 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech
Author: Sharon Williams
Physical labour as valuable as mental 
"Our greatest danger is that in the great leap from slavery to freedom we may overlook the fact that the masses of us are to live by productions of our hands, and fail to keep in mind that we shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify labour and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life; shall prosper in proportion as we learn to draw the line between the superficial and the substantial, the ornamental gewgaws of life and the useful. No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin and not at the top."
1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech, <http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/1642b-booker.html> 
The importance of religion to the Negro race 
"And not the least of the blessings of such struggle is that it keeps one humble and nearer to the heart of the Giver of all Gifts. Show me the individual who is permitted to go through life without anxious thought, without ever having experienced a sense of poverty and wrong, want and struggle, and I will show you a man who is likely to fail. ‘Whom the Lord loveth, He chasteneth.’ "
"Nothing pays so well in producing efficient labour as Christianity."
South better than North for Negroes 
"I say without hesitation that in all but the most exceptional cases, the Negro is at his best in the Southern states. While he enjoys certain privileges in the North that he does not have in the South, when it comes to the matter of securing property, enjoying business advantages and employment, the South presents a far better opportunity than the North
Another point of great danger for the colored man who goes North is the matter of morals owing to the numerous temptations by which he finds himself surrounded. More ways in which he can spend money than in the South, but fewer avenues of employment are open to him."
- Booker T. Washington, Thornbbrough, p.45.
Views on the Talented Tenth 
"Among the most trying people with whom I come in contact are the persons who have been educated in books to the extent that they are able upon every occasion to quote a phrase or a sentiment from Shakespeare, Milton, Homer. Every time a problem arises they are on the spot with a phrase or quotation."
- Booker T. Washington, Thornbbrough, p. 57
Views on college education vs. industrial education 
"When a mere boy, I saw a young colored man, who had spent several years in school, sitting in a common cabin in the South, studying a French grammar. I noted the poverty, the untidiness, the want of system and thrift, that existed about the cabin, notwithstanding his knowledge of French and other academic subjects. Another time, when riding on the outer edges of a town in the South, I heard the sound of a piano coming from a cabin of the same kind. Contriving some excuses, I entered, and began a conversation with the young colored woman who was playing, and who had recently returned from a boarding school, where she had been studying instrumental music among other things. Despite the fact that her parents lived in a rented cabin, eating poorly cooked food, surrounded with poverty, and having almost none of the conveniences of life, she had persuaded them to rent a piano for four or five dollars per month. Many such instances as these in connection with my own struggles, impressed upon me the importance of making a study of our needs as a race, and applying the remedy accordingly. Someone may be tempted to ask, has not the Negro boy or girl as good a right to study French or instrumental music as the white youth? I answer yes, but in the present condition of the Negro race in this country there is need of something more"
•	Booker T. Washington, Thornbrough p.11, "The Awakening of the Negro," <http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/blacked/washaw.htm> 
Booker T. Washington believed that Negroes would prosper through: 
Advancement in self help 
Thrift as a path to riches 
Importance of responsibilities over riches 
Bibliography
Harlan, Louis, Booker T. Washington 1901 – 1915, Oxford University Press, New York 1983
Hawkin, Hugh, Booker T. Washington and his Critics, D.C. Heath and Company 1962
Washington, Booker T., "Atlanta Compromise Speech," <http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/1642b-booker.html> 
Washington, Booker T., Up From Slavery: An Autobiography, Doubleday and Company, Inc. 1900-1901