# Quote — Trevor Noah, Born a Crime

> Every country thinks their history is the most important, and that’s especially true in the West. But if black South Africans could go back in time and kill one person, Cecil Rhodes would come up before Hitler. If people in the Congo could go back in time and kill one person, Belgium’s King Leopold would come way before Hitler. If Native Americans could go back in time and kill one person, it would probably be Christopher Columbus or Andrew Jackson.

- Author: [Trevor Noah](https://www.leafyquotes.com/trevor-noah.md)
- Book: [Born a Crime](https://www.leafyquotes.com/trevor-noah/born-a-crime.md)
- Page: 195
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Trevor_Noah#Born_a_Crime:_Stories_from_a_South_African_Childhood_(2016)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/trevor-noah/born-a-crime/every-country-thinks

## More from this book

> As the outsider, you can retreat into a shell, be anonymous, be invisible. Or you can go the other way. You protect yourself by opening up. You don't ask to be accepted for everything you are, just the one part of yourself that you're willing to share. For me it was humor. I learned that even though I didn't belong to one group, I could be a part of any group that was laughing.

p. 140 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/trevor-noah/born-a-crime/as-the-outsider.md)

> If you’re Native American and you pray to the wolves, you’re a savage. If you’re African and you pray to your ancestors, you’re a primitive. But when white people pray to a guy who turns water into wine, well, that’s just common sense.

p. 6 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/trevor-noah/born-a-crime/if-youre-native.md)

> The end of apartheid was a gradual thing. Concessions were made here and there, some laws were repealed, others simply weren’t enforced.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/trevor-noah/born-a-crime/the-end-of-apartheid.md)