Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.
—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746Quotes
Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925It’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, 2011Strangers are an endangered species.
—Adrienne Rich, 1980There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866When you name yourself, you always name another.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1926Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972When 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, 1984At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850