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Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

—Hebrews, c. 60

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

—Evelyn Waugh, 1938

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

—Samuel Johnson, 1751

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839

Strangers are an endangered species.

—Adrienne Rich, 1980

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

—Maya Angelou, 2011

I do desire we may be better strangers.

—William Shakespeare, 1600

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

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

—L.P. Hartley, 1953

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

—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

—Henry Clay, 1812