BEN KIES

In every social system based on privilege, the privileged always rationalise their position by claiming inherent or divinely bestowed superiority which, moreover, gives meaning, purpose and protection to the lives of those not so fortunately endowed. No caste of class claiming such superiority, however, has sufficient belief in its own claims to omit the precaution of entrenching its position by means of a code of law duly fortified by the forces of order.

- Ben Kies, The Contribution of the Non-European Peoples to World Civilisation (1954).