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.

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

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

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

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

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

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

When you name yourself, you always name another.

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

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

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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