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Quotation from Atlanta Exposition Address by Booker T. Washington
“The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera-house.”
Atlanta Exposition Address, Paragraph 9 (Up from Slavery (1901), Chapter XIV)
A homely contrast summing up his priority of economic footing over social access.
Citation: "The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera-house." — Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address, Paragraph 9 (Up from Slavery (1901), Chapter XIV). (id atlanta-exposition-address-q7)
Portrait: Booker t washington atlanta compromise speech, Unknown author, Public domain.
