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

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

In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

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.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

When you name yourself, you always name another.

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 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.

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

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