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Quotation from Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
“great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.”
Up from Slavery, Chapter XI (Project Gutenberg #2376)
The lesson he says he learned from General Armstrong, who never spoke a bitter word against the white South.
Citation: "great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred." — Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery, Chapter XI (Project Gutenberg #2376). (id up-from-slavery-q6)
Virtues: Charity, Magnanimity
Portrait: UpFromSlavery cover, Booker T. Washington / Doubleday & Co., Public domain.
