'The fact that racism is the main ideological weapon of imperialistic politics is so obvious that it seems as though many students prefer to avoid the beaten track of truism. Instead an old misconception about racism being a kind of exaggerated nationalism is still given currency.'From: Race-thinking before Racism
"No they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it – this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity – like yours – the thought of remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar. Ugly. Yes, it was ugly enough; but if you were man enough you would admit to yourself that there was in you just the faintest trace of a response to the terrible frankness of that noise, a dims suspicion of there being a meaning in it which you – you so remote from the night of first ages – could comprehend."
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
