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“Everybody's suffering is mine but not everybody's murdering ... I do not distinguish for one moment whether my child is in danger or a child in central Asia. But I will not accept responsibility for what other people do because I happen to belong to that nation or that race or that religion. I do not believe in guilt by association.”

Quote by Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist known for her groundbreaking fieldwork and theoretical contributions. She is renowned for her studies of the Samoan, Arapesh, and Australian Aboriginal peoples, which had a profound impact on the fields of anthropology and sociology. more

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Book:To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead

Source: To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead

“we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.”

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“Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.”

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“Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.”

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“Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.”

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“I discovered when I had a child of my own that I had become a biased observer of small children. Instead of looking at them with affectionate but nonpartisan eyes, I saw each of them as older or younger, bigger or smaller, more or less graceful, intelligent, or skilled than my own child.”

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“Every act of motherhood contains a dual intent, as the mother holds the child close and prepares it to move way from her, as she supports the child and stands it firmly on its own feet, and as she guards it against danger and sends it out across the yard, down by the stream, and across the traffic-crowded highway. Unless a mother can do both - gather her child close and turn her child out toward the world - she will fail in her purpose.”

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“today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.”

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