In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.
Ruth BenedictWar is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what soil conditions it grows, where it plays havoc, and how it is eliminated.
Ruth BenedictRacism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.
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