It is now long ago that I learned this lesson from General Armstrong, and resolved that I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Inspired by General Armstrong's example, Washington declares his personal commitment to resist hatred and maintain his moral integrity.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
The hurtful influences of the institution were not by any means confined to the Negro.
He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.