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

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

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

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

To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

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

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

All of life is a foreign country.

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.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

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

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