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

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

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

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

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.

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

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

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

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

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

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.