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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

When you name yourself, you always name another.

—Bertolt Brecht, 1926

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

—Margaret Mead, 1972

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655

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

—L.P. Hartley, 1953

This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.

—Tony Blair, 2006

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

—Fernando Pessoa, c. 1935

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

—George Eliot, 1866

All of life is a foreign country.

—Jack Kerouac, 1949

Strangers are an endangered species.

—Adrienne Rich, 1980

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

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850
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