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By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

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Ashley Montagu
Age: 94 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 28
Died: 1999
Died: November 16
Anthropologist
University Teacher
Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu
Montague Francis Ashley Montagu
Israel Ehrenberg
M. F. Ashley-Montague
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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
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The idea of race represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.
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Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.
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Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.
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Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
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The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most gratifying time of our lives. . . . Old age should be a harvest time when the riches of life are reaped and enjoyed, while it continues to be a special period for self-development and expansion.
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The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.
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Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the person. As such, the teaching of love should be the central core of all early childhood curriculum with all other subjects growing naturally out of such teaching.
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Do we have the right to rear animals in order to kill them so that we may feed appetites in which we have been artificially conditioned from childhood?
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The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.
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The original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live.
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The only measure of what you believe is what you do.
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You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.
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Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
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One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
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... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.
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The majority of people believe in incredible things which are absolutely false. The majority of people daily act in a manner prejudicial to their general well-being.
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The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.
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