Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even at the threshold of his potentialities without a culture in which he participates. Conversely, no civilization has in it any element which in the last analysis is not the contribution of an individual.

Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.

In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people one does not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community

Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other.

The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.