In Poland a man must be one thing: white or black, here or there, with us or against us --clearly, openly, without hesitations. . . . We lack the liberal, democratic tradition rich in all its gradations.
Source: A Warsaw Diary, in Granta, no. 15 (Cambridge, England, 1985).
-- Ryszard Kapuscinski, ( -1932), Polish reporter, writer; His best-known book is a reportage-novel of the decline of Haile Selassie's anachronistic regime in Ethiopia.