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Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839

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

—Hebrews, c. 60

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

—George W. Bush, 2004

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

—Henry Clay, 1812

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

—George Mikes, 1946

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

—Albert Einstein, 1929

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

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

I do desire we may be better strangers.

—William Shakespeare, 1600

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

—Woodrow Wilson, 1915

I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.

—Terence, 163 BC
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