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.

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

When you name yourself, you always name another.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.

To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Strangers are an endangered species.

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

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

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.

All of life is a foreign country.