Education Is A Slow Moving But Powerful

I'm Sure That President Johnson Would Never Have Pursued The War In Vietnam If He'd Ever Had A Fulbright To Japan, Or Say Bangkok, Or Had Any Feeling For What These People Are Like And Why They Acted The Way They Did. He Was Completely Ignorant.

The Price Of Empire Is America's Soul, And That Price Is Too High.

Educational Exchange Can Turn Nations Into People, Contributing As No Other Form Of Communication Can To The Humanizing Of International Relations. Man's Capacity For Decent Behavior Seems To Vary Directly With His Perception Of Others As Individual Humans With Human Motives And Feelings, Whereas His Capacity For Barbarism Seems Related To His Perception Of An Adversary In Abstract Terms, As The Embodiment, That Is, Of Some Evil Design Or Ideology.

In A Democracy, Dissent Is An Act Of Faith.

To Give [the Bay Of Pigs Invasion Of Cuba] Even Covert Support Is On A Par With The Hypocrisy And Cynicism For Which The United States Is Constantly Denouncing The Soviet Union In The United Nations And Elsewhere. This Point Will Not Be Lost On The Rest Of The World, Nor On Our Own Consciences.