"The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences."
~ Ruth Benedict
"Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess."
~ Margaret Mead
"Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: 'What is the scientific status of the claims?' 'What social or ideological needs do they serve?'"
~ Noam Chomsky
