It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding.
Ruth BenedictRacism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.
Ruth BenedictThe life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community
Ruth BenedictSociety 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.
Ruth Benedict