Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?
Amin MaaloufNothing is born of nothing, least of all knowledge, modernity, or enlightened thought; progress is made in tiny surges, in successive laps, like an endless relay race. But there are links without which nothing would be passed on, and for that reason, they deserve the gratitude of all who benefited from them.
Amin Maalouf