"Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa."

Travel, Independence, Reason, State

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"Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa."

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"With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as hard to resist as the temptation to read promiscuously, omnivorously and without purpose. From time to time, it is true, I make a desperate resolution to mend my ways. I sketch out programmes of useful, serious reading; I try to turn my rambling voyages into systematic tours through the history of art and civilization. But without much success. After a little I relapse into my old bad ways. Deplorable weakness! I try to comfort myself with the hope that even my vices may be of some profit to me."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Travelers never think that they are the foreigners."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart."

Tahir Shah, British Author

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"Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

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"We are all pilgrims who seek Italy."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"The thing about Ayers Rock is that by the time you finally get there you are already a little sick of it."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

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"I built my home in the feeling of waking up at dawn in a new city, where every road is the right road because there is no ordinary. Everything is as profound as you make it."

Charlotte Eriksson, American Psychologist

Travel, Adventure, Life, Discovery, Perspective

"I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side."

Roman Payne, American Novelist

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"As anyone who's ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed."

Tahir Shah, British Author

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"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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"I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler."

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"Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence."

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"I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population."

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"I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States."

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"And, gentlemen, they have not yet done so, and it is quite clear that no Americans, no people in the world probably, are going to war with the Soviet Union."

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"Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa."

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"At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war."

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"But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people."

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"The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of appeals, is that when I am abroad I speak out against the injustices against the Negro people of this land."

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"In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East."

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