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Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839

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

—L.P. Hartley, 1953

I 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, 1940

Strangers are an endangered species.

—Adrienne Rich, 1980

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

—André Gide, 1927

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

—Woodrow Wilson, 1915

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

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

—Oscar Wilde, 1887

It’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, 2011

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BC

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 want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962
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