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

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

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.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

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

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

I do desire we may be better strangers.

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

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

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

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

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