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J. William Fulbright

The simple basic purpose of the exchange program we
initiated over forty years ago is to erode the culturally rooted
mistrust that sets nations against one another. Its
essential aim is to encourage people in all countries, and
especially their political leaders, to stop denying
others the right to their own view of reality and to develop
a new manner of thinking about how to avoid war rather
than to wage it. The exchange program is not a panacea but
an avenue of hope – possibly our best hope and conceivably
our only hope – for the survival and further progress
of humanity.