Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.

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

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

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

Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

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.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

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 nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

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