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

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

I will permit no man to narrow & degrade my sould by making me hate him.

"Frederick Douglass, of sainted memory, once, in addressing his race, used these words: "We are to prove that we can better our own condition. One way to do this is to accumulate property. This may sound to you like a new gospel. You have been accustomed to hear that money is the root of all evil, etc. On the other hand, property — money, if you please — will purchase for us the only condition by which any people can rise to the dignity of genuine manhood; for without property there can be no leisure, without leisure there can be no thought, without thought there can be no invention, without invention there can be no progress.

Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.

In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.