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Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

—Margaret Mead, 1972

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

—Joseph Conrad, 1899

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

—E.B. White, 1958

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

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175

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

—Woodrow Wilson, 1915

I do desire we may be better strangers.

—William Shakespeare, 1600

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

—George Eliot, 1866

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

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866

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

—André Gide, 1927

There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883

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

—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962
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