"I'm sure that President Johnson would never have……" — J. William Fulbright
"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."
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J. William Fulbright
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73 Quotes by J. William Fulbright
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International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point,…
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Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I…
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There is nothing obscure about the objectives of educational exchange. Its purpose is to acquaint Americans with the world as…
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The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich…
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Finally, the Program aims, through these means, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little…
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The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life. It's the only activity…
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The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and…
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It is in a way a mystery that, instead of demanding that their governments give primary attention to their own…
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Education is the best means-probably the only means-by which nations can cultivate a degree of objectivity about each other's behavior…
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Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international…
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....Man's struggle to be rational about himself, about his relationship to his own society and to other peoples and nations…
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The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed…
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