Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972Quotes
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius, c. 500 BC“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
—Euripides, 431 BCI am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCAll of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949All 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. 1655No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962The 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