In this respect, Washington’s concept of nonviolence saw eye and eye with Gandhi’s idea. Booker T. Washington said, “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.”(Document C) What Washington exposes by saying this is that if violence or questioning of social equality prevails, it would only promote artificial progress that is not in its true form.
Though his idea focused more on manual labor, per se, Booker’s idea sought to start the blacks to get to know how to start living and becoming a more independent self. Booker relays his position by saying, “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.”(Document C) By blacks beginning to work and get acquainted with becoming more independent, it made more sense to progress both white and blacks lives together to promote