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Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.

—Karl Kraus, 1909

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

—Francis Bacon, 1625

I do desire we may be better strangers.

—William Shakespeare, 1600

In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.

—Francis Grose, 1787

All of life is a foreign country.

—Jack Kerouac, 1949

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

—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962

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

—Euripides, 431 BC

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

—Hebrews, c. 60

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839

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

—Horace Walpole, 1745

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

—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BC

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

—Terence, 163 BC
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