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

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

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

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

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.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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.

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

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

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