This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.

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

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

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

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

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

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

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

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.

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.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

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.

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