William Fulbright
William Fulbright
James William Fulbrightwas a United States Senator representing Arkansas from January 1945 until his resignation in December 1974...
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art educational technology
The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life by exposing it to the science and art of many societies.
war america soul
The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
differences peaceful culture
The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.
educational men empathy
International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education.
educational communication people
Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations
thinking world possibility
We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
educational simple essence
The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program...is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope....
loyalty men too-much
To ask for overt renunciation of a cherished doctrine is to expect too much of human nature. Men do not repudiate the doctrines and dogmas to which they have sworn their loyalty. Instead they rationalize, revise, and re-interpret them to meet new needs and new circumstances, all the while protesting that their heresy is the purest orthodoxy.
thinking america faults
I do not think it is "selling America short" when we ask a great deal of her; on the contrary, it is those who ask nothing, those who see no fault, who are really selling America short!
doe care moral
A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.
strong virtue legislature
The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.
school atheism democracy
This is regrettable indeed for a nation that aspires to teach democracy to other nations, because, as Burke said: "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."
self curiosity atheism
It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.
organization fundamentals would-be
We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States.