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There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

—E.B. White, 1958

France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

—Mark Twain, 1879

When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.

—Desmond Tutu, 1984

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

—George W. Bush, 2004

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

—Miriam Makeba, 1988

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

—Samuel Johnson, 1751

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

—Woodrow Wilson, 1915

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

—Francis Bacon, 1625

I do desire we may be better strangers.

—William Shakespeare, 1600

I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.

—Terence, 163 BC

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

—André Gide, 1927