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

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

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

When you name yourself, you always name another.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

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

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

Strangers are an endangered species.

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.

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

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