The Trouble Is Not That We Are

No Man Ever Looks At The World With Pristine Eyes. He Sees It Edited By A Definite Set Of Customs And Institutions And Ways Of Thinking.

Racism Is The Dogma That One Ethnic Group Is Condemned By Nature To Congenital Inferiority And Another Group Is Destined To Congenital Superiority.

The Life History Of The Individual Is First And Foremost An Accommodation To The Patterns And Standards Traditionally Handed Down In His Community

If We Justify War, It Is Because All Peoples Always Justify The Traits Of Which They Find Themselves Possessed, Not Because War Will Bear An Objective Examination Of Its Merits

Culture, With Its Processes And Functions, Is A Subject Upon Which We Need All The Enlightenment We Can Achieve, And There Is No Direction In Which We Can Seek With Greater Reward Than In The Facts Of Pre-literate Societies.