On great minds :
It’s with regret that I speak about Jews : this nation is, in many ways, the most detestable that ever soiled Earth (Voltaire)
The improvement of the blacks […] in the first instance of their mixture with the whites, […] proves that their inferiority is not the effect merely of their condition of life (Jefferson)
It is one thing to register natives, who would not work, but it is another thing -and most insulting - to expect decent, hard-working, and respectable Indians [to do the same] (Gandhi)