Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
MARGARET MEADThe atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
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What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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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.
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Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
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Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
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