The pride of belonging

I'm not proud of being human, nor to be of white race, and even to be born in Italy, because you can not be proud of that to which you have no personal merit. Racists feel a ridiculous pride in itself, of the same quality of a man who, having found a dirty stone on the ground, shows with proudly the stone to the world, saying that no other man would have had the right to find it before him.