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Quotation from Atlanta Exposition Address by Booker T. Washington
“In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.”
Atlanta Exposition Address, Paragraph 5 (Up from Slavery (1901), Chapter XIV)
The best-known sentence of the speech, offered to the white Southerners in the audience.
Citation: "In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress." — Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address, Paragraph 5 (Up from Slavery (1901), Chapter XIV). (id atlanta-exposition-address-q4)
Portrait: Booker t washington atlanta compromise speech, Unknown author, Public domain.
