Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839Quotes
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953I 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, 1940Strangers are an endangered species.
—Adrienne Rich, 1980The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887It’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, 2011Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BCDo not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962