Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.

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

When you name yourself, you always name another.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

All of life is a foreign country.

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

When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.

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

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

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

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.

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

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