At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

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

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

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

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

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

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

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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.

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

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

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.