Journy of Prejudices

In doing a little research for a self-initiated project, I found some interesting travel quotes that address the ever-present issue of culture-clashes, racism, and prejudice. I don't have any original thoughts on this collection yet so you'll have to create your own.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
~Marcel Proust

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
~Maya Angelou

Travel teaches toleration
~Benjamin Disraeli

One of the greatest stumbling blocks to understanding other peoples within or without a particular culture is the tendency to judge others’ behavior by our own standards.
~James Downs

Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.
~Euripides

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
~Mark Twain

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
~James Michener