Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972Quotes
Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.
—Voltaire, 1764To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823I 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, 1940Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866Strangers are an endangered species.
—Adrienne Rich, 1980The 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, 1952If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839