I do desire we may be better strangers.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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.

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

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

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

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

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

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

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

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

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.