Instead, we try to give them affection, confidence and guidance, more or less in that order, because experience has shown us that those are their most immediate needs.

— E.R. Braithwaite

It was like a disease, and these children whom I loved without caring about their skins or their backgrounds, they were tainted with the hateful virus which attacked their vision, distorting everything that was not white or English.

— E.R. Braithwaite

Oh God, forgive me for the hateful thoughts, because I love them, these brutal, disarming bastards, I love them …

— E.R. Braithwaite

So long as we learn it doesn’t matter who teaches us, does it?

— E.R. Braithwaite

The betrayal I now felt was greater because it had been perpetrated with the greatest of charm and courtesy.

— E.R. Braithwaite

Today I was a teacher, employed. True, I was also a teacher untried, but that could also be an advantage. I would learn, by God I’d learn. Nothing was going to stop me.

— E.R. Braithwaite