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布克·T·华盛顿：力争上游·摘录 82
布克·T·华盛顿《力争上游》· Up from Slavery · 领导
During the whole of the Reconstruction period our people throughout the South looked to the Federal Government for everything, very much as a child looks to its mother. This was not unnatural. The central government gave them freedom, and the whole Nation had been enriched for more than two centuries by the labour of the Negro. Even as a youth, and later in manhood, I had the feeling that it was cruelly wrong in the central government, at the beginning of our freedom, to fail to make some provision for the general education of our people in addition to what the states might do, so that the people would be the better prepared for the duties of citizenship.
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定位：Excerpt 82 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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重建时期，南方黑人把联邦政府当成母亲，事事依赖它。这并不奇怪：是中央政府给了他们自由，而且全国两个多世纪以来靠黑人的劳动致富。华盛顿说，他年轻时就觉得，联邦政府在黑人刚获自由时，除了各州自己做的之外，没有为黑人提供普及教育，这是残酷的错误。因为只有教育才能让黑人准备好履行公民职责。他的核心意思是，自由之后最该补上的是教育，而不是一味依赖政府。
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美国重建时期（1865-1877）联邦政府曾保护黑人权利，但撤军后南方黑人陷入困境。华盛顿在自传中回顾这段历史，强调教育是自立之本。
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