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“As we have proved our loyalty to you in the past, in nursing your children, watching by the sick-bed of your mothers and fathers, and often following them with tear-dimmed eyes to their graves, so in the future, in our humble way, we shall stand by you with a devotion that no foreigner can approach, ready to lay down our lives, if need be, in defense of yours, interlacing our industrial, commercial, civil, and religious life with yours in a way that shall make the interests of both races one. 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…. The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.”
- from "The Atlanta Compromise Speech," Booker T. Washington, September 18, 1895

Which of these BEST describes the point of Washington in this excerpt?
A) African Americans must demand immediate social equality.
B) African Americans must be patient and let change come gradually.
C) African Americans can only prosper once "separate but equal" policies end.
D) African Americans need greater government-funded job training to improve their economic situations.