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"Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange... (which) is not merely one of those nice but marginal activities in which we engage in international affairs, but rather, from the standpoint of future world peace and order, probably the most important and potentially rewarding of our foreign policy activities."
“The prejudices and misconceptions which exist in every country regarding foreign people are the great barrier to any system of government. If, however, the peoples of the world could get to know each other better, live together and learn side by side, maybe they would be more inclined to cooperate and less willing to go off and kill each other”. – Senator J William Fulbright.
The worldwide Fulbright Program was established in 1946 under legislation introduced by Senator J William Fulbright of Arkansas. Approximately 250,000 “Fulbrighters”, 94,000 from the United States and 156,000 from other countries, have participated in the Program since its inception more than fifty years ago. Fulbright Alumni around the world include heads of state, prime ministers, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, ambassadors, artists, professors, scientists, astronauts, journalists, Supreme Court Judges, and corporate directors.
