We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887Quotes
Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
—Euripides, 431 BCIntolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
—Mark Twain, 1879The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
—Frantz Fanon, 1952The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCAfrica has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745