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

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

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.

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.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

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.

Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

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

When you name yourself, you always name another.

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