In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not long keep the world from wha… - Booker T. Washington

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

"On the morning of September 17, together with Mrs. Washington and my three children, I started for Atlanta. I felt a good deal as I suppose a man feels when he is on his way to the gallows. In passing through the town of Tuskegee I met a white farmer who lived some distance out in the country. In a jesting manner this man said: "Washington, you have spoken before the Northern white people, the Negroes in the South, and to us country white people in the South; but Atlanta, to-morrow, you will have before you the Northern whites, the Southern whites, and the Negroes all together. I am afraid that you have got yourself in a tight place." This farmer diagnosed the situation correctly, but his frank words did not add anything to my comfort."

I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice.