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

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.

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

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

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.

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

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

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

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

All of life is a foreign country.

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.

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