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

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

No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled others. Each culture is a system of values which may well complement the values in another.

Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it.

In a day of footloose movements of people and of mixed marriages in the ancestry of the most desirable elements of the community we preach unabashed the gospel of the pure race.

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

The peoples of the earth are one family.