Foreigners Quotes

• The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

  Steven Biko

  Country, Men, Black

  Steven Biko (1979). “Steve Biko: Black Consciousness in South Africa”, Vintage

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• Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

  Mason Cooley

  Travel, Memorable, Thinking

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• Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, House

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Silence, Language, Knows

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• Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

  Amy Chua

  Courage, Bravery, Language

  Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.30, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Inspirational, Friendship, Cutting

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• As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Freedom, Taken

  Letter to Joshua F. Speed, 24 Aug. 1855

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• One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.

  Pico Iyer

  Eden, Curiosity, Purgatory

  Pico Iyer (2011). “The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home”, p.185, Vintage

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• Being a foreigner is not a disease.

  Alden Nowlan

  Disease

  Alden Nowlan (1968). “Miracle at Indian River: stories”, Toronto, Clarke

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• Children are all foreigners.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Success, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.245, Harvard University Press

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• Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.

  William Ralph Inge

  Admiration, Institutions, Contempt

  William Ralph Inge (1925). “Outspoken essays”

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• I'll always be a foreigner.

  Olivier Martinez

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• As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Men, Despotism

  Letter to Joshua F. Speed, 24 Aug. 1855

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• Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

  Gertrude Stein

  America, Upset, Friendly

  Gertrude Stein (1974). “How Writing Is Written”

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• I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

  John Mahoney

  Sound, Want, Corny

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• To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.

  Roberto Clemente

  People, Outsiders

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• The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Country, Travel, Simple

  "Iraqi Information Minister: Update on military campaign and media distortions". archives.globalresearch.ca. March 27, 2003.

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• But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I'm not so happy.

  Mordechai Vanunu

  Country, Speak

  "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

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• Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.

  Hugh Jackman

  Country, Jobs, Attitude

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• The indigenous population is not responsible [for rising HIV infection rates]. It is the foreigners that we have to focus on.

  Robert Kilroy-Silk

  Focus, Population, Responsible

  The Sunday Express, December 01, 2002.

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• They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Humorous, Spells

  The Innocents Abroad ch. 19 (1869)

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• I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!

  George Orwell

  Country, Spain, Easy

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys

  Max von Sydow

  Nice, People, Guy

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• New York is a meeting place for every race in the world, but the Chinese, Armenians, Russians, and Germans remain foreigners. So does everyone except the blacks. There is no doubt but that the blacks exercise great influence in North America, and, no matter what anyone says, they are the most delicate, spiritual element in that world.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Spiritual, New York, Exercise

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• Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him.

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Needs, World

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.39, Schocken

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