Quotation by Ruth Benedict

The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races.
Ruth Benedict (1887–1948), U.S. anthropologist. "Recognition of Cultural Diversities in the Postwar World." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (July 1943). An Anthropologist at Work, part 5 (1959).
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