Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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

I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

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

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.

Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.

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

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

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.

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