 | Booker T Washington, Louis R. Harlan, Raymond W Smock - 1974 - 668 pages
...bucket where you are." Cast it down among these 8,000,oo0 Negroes whose habits you know, whose loyalty* and love you have tested in days when to have proved treacher[o]us meant the ruin of your fire sides. Cast down your bucket among these people who have1 tilled your fields, cleared your fore[s]ts,... | |
 | Richard A. Long, Eugenia W. Collier - 2010 - 781 pages
...say to my own race, "Cast down your bucket where you are." Cast it down among the 8,000,000 Negroes whose habits you know, whose fidelity and love you...have tested in days when to have proved treacherous mean the ruin of your firesides. Cast down your bucket among these people who have, without strikes... | |
 | Howard Brotz - 2011 - 641 pages
...to my own race, "Cast down your bucket where you are." Cast it down among the eight million Negroes whose habits you know, whose fidelity and love you...Cast down your bucket among these people who have withour strikes and labor wars tilled your fields, cleared your forests, builded your railroads and... | |
 | Wilson Jeremiah Moses - 2010 - 301 pages
...southern and eastern Europe. "Cast down your bucket," he advised his audience, "among the 8,000,000 you have tested in days when to have proved treacherous meant the ruin of your firesides." He then went on to assign to black Americans the dubious proofs of superiority associated with the... | |
 | Abu Shardow Abarry - 1996 - 852 pages
...to my own race, "Cast down your bucket where you are." Cast it down among the eight million Negroes whose habits you know, whose fidelity and love you...cleared your forests, builded your railroads and cities, brought forth treasures from the bowels of the earth, and helped make possible this magnificent representation... | |
 | Cary D. Wintz - 1996 - 362 pages
...my own race, "Cast down your bucket where you are." Cast it down among the eight millions of Negroes whose habits you know, whose fidelity and love you...bucket among these people who have, without strikes and labour wars, tilled your fields, cleared your forests, builded your railroads and cities, and brought... | |
 | Vernon J. Williams, Jr. - 1996 - 170 pages
...For "without strikes and labour wars," blacks had "tilled your fields, cleared your forests, built your railroads and cities, and brought forth treasures from the bowels of the earth." Nevertheless, whatever the monumental role they had played in the antebellum achievements of the South,... | |
 | Philip Sheldon Foner, Robert J. Branham - 1998 - 952 pages
...my own race, "Cast down your bucket where you are." Cast it down among the eight millions of Negroes whose habits you know, whose fidelity and love you...labor wars, tilled your fields, cleared your forests, built your railroads and cities, and brought forth treasures from the bowels of the earth, and helped... | |
 | Lee D. Baker - 1998 - 350 pages
...immigrant workers "of foreign birth and strange tongue and habits . . . [because the Negro, after all, has] without strikes and labor wars, tilled your fields,...and brought forth treasures from the bowels of the earth."30 Washington did not challenge segregation statutes and disfranchisement, and he even suggested... | |
 | James A. Morone - 1998 - 426 pages
...buckets among the eight million Negroes whose habits you know, whose fidelity and love you have tested. People who have, without strikes and labor wars, tilled...fields, cleared your forests, builded your railroads.""' The strategy of conciliation and self-help echoed labor's retreat from confrontation under the American... | |
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South, were I permitted I would repeat what I say to my own race, "Cast down your bucket where you are". 
