If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

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

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

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.

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

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.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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.

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

Strangers are an endangered species.