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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.
By Margaret Mead
In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world
By Margaret Mead
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings
By Margaret Mead
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
By Margaret Mead
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
By Margaret Mead
Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need
By Margaret Mead
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
By Margaret Mead
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
By Margaret Mead
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
By Margaret Mead
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
By Margaret Mead
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
By Margaret Mead
The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.
By Margaret Mead