“He had not said “Sir”. It was simply you – as though we were equals, and perhaps it bore a suggestion that he was the superior one… Most certainly these were not like the Cape coloreds. It was going to be interesting to see how these white Americans lived with their Negroes.”
Dr. Christiaan Barnard – South African surgeon who performed the world’s first human heart transplant, upon his interaction with an African-American porter after arriving on his first trip to the United States.