Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.

To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

Strangers are an endangered species.

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.