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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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  Sex, Race, Generations

  Margaret Mead (1963). “Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies”

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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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  Unique, Consciousness, Crisis

  Margaret Mead (1964). “Continuities in Cultural Evolution”, p.3, Transaction Publishers

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• It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

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  Fear, Fog, Punishment

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• Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity to learn to walk upright, to use our brains, to speak, to relate to our fellow men, to construct and use tools, to explore the universe, and to express that exploration in religion, in art, in science, in philosophy.

  Margaret Mead

  Art, Philosophy, Men

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• My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

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  Learning, School, Grandmother

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• I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Growing Up

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• The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.

  Margaret Mead

  War, Technology, Hands

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• Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Change, Kindness

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• Even very recently, the elders could say: 'You know, I have been young and you never have been old.' But today's young people can reply: 'You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be.' ... the older generation will never see repeated in the lives of young people their own unprecedented experience of sequentially emerging change. This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal.

  Margaret Mead

  People, Generations, World

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• A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.

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  Change, Thoughtful, People

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• Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Children, Acceptance

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Twentieth century faith: hope and survival”

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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.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Past, People

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• Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

  Margaret Mead

  Love, Dance, Song

  "Margaret Mead: A Life". Book by Jane Howard, 1984.

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• Whatever advantages may have arisen, in the past, out of the existence of a specially favored and highly privileged aristocracy, it is clear to me that today no argument can stand that supports unequal opportunity or any intrinsic disqualification for sharing in the whole of life.

  Margaret Mead

  Past, Opportunity, Equality

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.

  Margaret Mead

  World, Tribes, Our Family

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• Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

  Margaret Mead

  Family, Impossible Situations, Support

  "Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap". Book by Margaret Mead, 1970.

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• We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.

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  Country, Religious, Freedom

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation... We have to learn to cherish this earth and cherish it as something that's fragile, that's only one, it's all we have... We have to use our scientific knowledge to correct the dangers that have come from science and technology.

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  Technology, Temptation, Mastery

  "Margaret Mead, 1901-1978: One of the Most Famous Anthropologists in the World". Voice of America Special English: "People in America" with Steve Ember and Shirley Griffith, learningenglish.voanews.com. July 1, 2011.

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• There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves

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  Children, Insight, Recognizing

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• What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take" is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.

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  Leisure, Feels, Stills

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1970). “A way of seeing”

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• We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

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  Children, Women, School

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Andrew L. Zehner "How They Work In Indiana: Business-Education Partnerships" (p. 3), 1994.

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• in all cultures, human beings - in order to be human - must understand the nonhuman.

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  Order, Culture, Humans

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Twentieth century faith: hope and survival”, Harper & Row Barnes & Noble Import Division

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• Our human situation no longer permits us to make armed dichotomies between those who are good and those who are evil, those who are right and those who are wrong. The first blow dealt to the enemy's children will sign the death warrant of our own.

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  Children, Blow, Evil

  Margaret Mead (1964). “Continuities in Cultural Evolution”, p.323, Transaction Publishers

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• The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.

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  Winning, Men, Effort

  Margaret Mead (2000). “And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America”, p.125, Berghahn Books

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• The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

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  Inspirational, Real, Needs

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