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

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

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.

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

When you name yourself, you always name another.

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

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

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

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.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.