To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

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

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

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

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

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.

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

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

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

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

This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.