Booker T. Washington, the Negro educator, said: “I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”
Also attributed to: Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington refused to let hatred for another man degrade his own soul.
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I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
— Booker T. Washington
“I am determined to permit no man to narrow or degrade my soul by making me hate him.”
— Booker T. Washington
Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured.
— Ann Landers
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
A young Negro student said: “If you discriminate against me because I am uncouth, I can become mannerly. If you ostraciz…
— Emerson
“No, I don’t know that man, and I don’t want to know him. If I knew him, I might not hate him, and I want to hate him.”
— Sidney Smith
