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Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.

Margaret Mead

I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
MARGARET MEAD

Act Biology Human Myself Realize
The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
MARGARET MEAD

Assume Damage Different Important Man Oneself Woman
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
MARGARET MEAD

Difficult Human Love Oneself Relationship
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
MARGARET MEAD

Believe Enough Growth Myself People Wisdom
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
MARGARET MEAD

Different Entire People
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
MARGARET MEAD

Attention Brain Change Choice Ourselves
It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
MARGARET MEAD

Death Forever Marriage Ourselves
The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
MARGARET MEAD

Alone Children Nation People Responsibility Save
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
MARGARET MEAD

Change Citizenship Doubt Small Thinking
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
MARGARET MEAD

Classification Existence Perish Potential Race Recognition Sex
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
MARGARET MEAD

Guilty People Sleep Young
Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
MARGARET MEAD

Culture Delight Hold Human Identity Learning Pleasure
People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
MARGARET MEAD

Count Divorce Encouragement Knowledge Marriage People
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
MARGARET MEAD

Culture Human Order Understand
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
MARGARET MEAD

Elder History See Time Young
It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
MARGARET MEAD

Care Earth Moon Ourselves Photograph Planet Realize

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