"... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so."

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The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect that our judgments judge us, and that nothing exposes our weaknesses and reveals ourselves more naively than the attitude of pronouncing upon our neighbors.

— Paul Valery