I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.

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

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

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

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

Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.

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.

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.

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.

Strangers are an endangered species.

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.