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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

Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.

—Horace Walpole, 1745

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

—Albert Einstein, 1929

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

—Miriam Makeba, 1988

Strangers are an endangered species.

—Adrienne Rich, 1980

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

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

—L.P. Hartley, 1953

When you name yourself, you always name another.

—Bertolt Brecht, 1926

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

—André Gide, 1927

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

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
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