What we need is to be critics of ourselves, and this is exactly what we have been taught not to be.
We are quite good enough to look straight at ourselves.

Owing to one thing and another we are cleaner, honester, humaner, and whiter than any people on the continent of Europe.

If any nation on the continent of Europe has ever behaved with the generosity and magnanimity that we have shown to Cuba, I have yet to learn of it.

They jeered at us about Cuba, did the Europeans of the continent.

Their papers stuck their tongues in their cheeks.