I believe the correct answer is principles. Hope this helps! :)
This comes from the famous speech from <em>President Lyndon B. Johnson,</em> at Gettysburg in 1963. This speech foreshadowed the great changes that were to come only 13 months later in the Civil Rights Movement of the United States. In this speech he addressed the patience the black people had to wait for change which seems never to come.
Question: Which sentence represents a reason in support of the claim made in the passage?
Answer: D. The Negro says, "Now." Others say, "Never."
Answer:
use one word and try to stick with it
You can get a simple as
"My banking savings are scarce right now."
This makes sense because scarce means insufficient for the demand.