I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962Quotes
Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
—The Upanishads, c. 800 BCWhen 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.
—Desmond Tutu, 1984The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
—Hebrews, c. 60Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925