Booker T Washington Compare And Contrast

Compare and Contrast Essay WEB Dubois and Booker T. Washington are both very influential speakers from the civil rights movement. They are responsible for two speeches written ten years apart that had huge effects on their societies. Although both speeches worked towards a racially equal society, Washington takes a slower approach where blacks start at the bottom of society and work their way to better opportunities while Dubois is looking for quicker solutions, and is more demanding of equality as he believes everyone should have equal opportunity right away. This strategy is more effective because he uses stronger diction and demands something to stop, instead of encouraging people to do what is right. Despite these differences, both speeches

He points out that negroes have just gotten out of slavery and can’t expect to start at the top of society, instead he takes a more practical approach. He proposes that his race should invest their “Brains and skill into common occupations of life” (Washington 2), where they can be successful and still maintain as much dignity as anyone else. Washington develops this idea through the use of an extended metaphor that says “Cast down your buckets where you are” (Washington 1). This extended metaphor means blacks were encouraged to make friends to the whites despite their past relations. And, the white people were encouraged allow blacks to buy their land and work in their factories. Washington continues the metaphor by saying the bucket will be filled with “sparkling water from the mouth of the Amazon River” (Washington 1). With this he is showing that both whites and blacks are good people that just have to be give each other a chance. Washington’s bold plan for the future is definitely slow moving, but if carried out it could create long lasting racial

Washington argues that as his race has tended to the White man 's field in the past with loyalty and without labour strikes, negroes would demonstrate that loyalty if the whites would “Cast down [their] bucket among [Washington’s’] people” (Washington 2), then both the white and black would benefit. Washington proclaims the the black people, in need of work, “will buy [the white’s] surplus of land, make blossom the waste places in fields, and run [the white’s] factories” (Washington 2). With this improvement, the newly freed slaves will get new jobs, and the white people can grow their wealth by getting new