The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
Ashley MontaguThe original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live.
Ashley MontaguThe family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.
Ashley MontaguIrcumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
Ashley MontaguThe parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings of insecurity, fear of economic competition, guilt feelings, and the like. Many of the leaders of the feminist movement in the nineteenth-century United States clearly understood the similarity of the motives at work in antifeminism and race discrimination and associated themselves with the anti slavery movement.
Ashley Montagu