“One South African saying put forward that “the white man has no kin, his kin is money.””
Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), p. 338.
“They that deny a God destroy a man’s nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.”
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Francis Bacon
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