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

—Miriam Makeba, 1988

Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”

—Evelyn Waugh, 1938

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

All of life is a foreign country.

—Jack Kerouac, 1949

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

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839

I do desire we may be better strangers.

—William Shakespeare, 1600

I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1940

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746

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

—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

—Frantz Fanon, 1952

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762