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What does this quote mean?

The quote is:
"To those, of my race who depend upon bettering their conditions in a foreign land, or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the southern white man, who is his next-door neighbor, I would say: "Cast down your bucket where you are" -- cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races, by whom we are surrounded..."

Make friends and business connections where you find yourself, whatever their race is - as opposed to forming ghettoes of your own race.

It is Booker T Washington http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4yTkxGiI4mkC&pg=PA73

It is somewhat controversial as advice, in that it's completely ignoring the reality that there will be places totally hostile to someone of a different race "casting down their bucket", and it's also asking them to give up their cultural roots. Washington's views were considerably more conciliatory - that African-American people in the US South should gain cultural acceptance by being productive citizens - than more activist voices like Du Bois.