The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental.

What do they know of cricket, who only cricket know?

Between Toussaint and his people there was no fundamental difference of outlook or of aim. Knowing the race question for the political and social question that…

Cricket had plunged me into politics long before I was aware of it. When I did turn to politics, I did not have too much to learn