Jules Ferry: "I repeat, that the superior races have a right because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize the inferior races .... In the history of earlier centuries these duties, gentlemen, have often been misunderstood; and certainly when the Spanish soldiers and explorers introduced slavery into Central America, they did not fulfill their duty as men of a higher race .... But, in our time, I maintain that European nations acquit themselves with generosity, with grandeur, and with sincerity of this superior civilizing duty".
Georges Clemenceau: "Higher races! Inferior races! This is too easily said! A lower Race, Hindus! With this great sophisticated civilization that is lost back in the mists of time! With this great Buddhist religion which left India for China, with this great efflorescence of art of which the magnificent remains we still see today! An inferior race, the Chinese! With this civilization whose origins are unknown and which appears to have been pushed first to its extreme limits. Confucius inferior!"
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