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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

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762

When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.

—Desmond Tutu, 1984

I do desire we may be better strangers.

—William Shakespeare, 1600

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

—L.P. Hartley, 1953

Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.

—Euripides, 431 BC

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925

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

—Tony Blair, 2006

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

—Hebrews, c. 60

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.

—The Upanishads, c. 800 BC
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