Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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

I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”

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.

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.