"The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority."

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Source : Franz Boas (1969). “Race and Democratic Society”, p.20, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

Franz Boas

#Race Quotes #Justice Quotes #Special Quotes

“He pulled away, but his eyes held my eyes like hands.”
“I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.”
“Life is so spine chillingly beautiful.”
“All art is concerned with the creation of an emotional reaction on the part of the beholder.”
“The discovery of electrical waves... has had a profound influence on civilization; it has been instrumental in providing the methods which may bring all inhabitants of the world within hearing distance of each other and has potentialities social, educational and political which we are only beginning to realize.”
“... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest source of contentions, wars, persecutions for conscience sake, angry words, angry feelings, backbitings, slanders, suspicions, false judgments, evil interpretations, unwise, unjust, injurious, inconsistent actions.”

Source : Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition”, p.107
“Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still.”
“The domestic life of most classes is relatively shabby, as compared with the Ã©clat of that overt portion of their life that is carried on before the eyes of observers.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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