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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Ever since then I have had no patience with any school for my race in the South which did not teach its students the dignity of labour.
I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
Your life will be wasted if you go away from here and have not learned that the greatest lesson of all is the lesson of brotherly love, of usefulness and of charity.
There is a vast difference between working and being worked.