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Quotation from Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
“I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”
Up from Slavery, Chapter XI (Project Gutenberg #2376)
His resolution, made under Armstrong's influence, to rid himself of ill feeling toward Southern white men.
Citation: "I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him." — Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery, Chapter XI (Project Gutenberg #2376). (id up-from-slavery-q7)
Virtues: Charity, Magnanimity, Temperance
Portrait: UpFromSlavery cover, Booker T. Washington / Doubleday & Co., Public domain.
