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So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features. Henry Louis Gates

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. Herman Melville

Truth Truth Is Ride Try Church Preach Own Living Pulpit Sun Out Would Silliest Clergyman Him Go Soup His Very Get Any Heavens Thing Societies

The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down. Isabel Allende

Women Down Those Backward Put Most Always Poorest Societies

I believe excellent fantasy reflects us all, and yes, it can use those myths that underpin societies, our subconscious yearnings and longings, and perhaps our barren spirituality. Isobelle Carmody

Spirituality Subconscious Believe Our Those Excellent Myths Perhaps Yearnings Yes Reflects Fantasy Us Use Barren Societies

I think a lot of things will be self-correcting, even in America. After all, human societies are essentially self-organizing emergent systems. The catch is, how much disorder will we have to endure while this re-self-organizing process occurs. James Howard Kunstler

Investing in women at home and abroad strengthens families, uplifts our children, improves health, makes communities and countries more peaceful, and brightens our collective future. Where women have equality, security, and the opportunity to live, work, and prosper, their families and societies are better off. Jan Schakowsky

Work Future Health Home Women Equality Better Opportunity Collective Live Our Security Abroad More Better Off Investing Countries Prosper Makes Off Families Improves Where Children Communities Peaceful Societies Strengthens

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation. Jared Diamond

Innovation Independent Vary Factors Openness Affecting Lots Human Societies

The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan. Jared Diamond

Hope Me Learning Books Possibility TV See Somalia Magazines Gives Main Main Thing Like Remote Blew Conditions Iraq Up Afghanistan Turn Turn-On Us Radio Media Thing Societies

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence. Jared Diamond

Time You Risks Space Think Too Increasing Worldwide Our Those Relevant About Seem Economic Remote Globalization Islands Still Modern Just Space And Time Interdependence Lest Societies

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. Jean Cocteau

What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault. Jenna McCarthy

Death Together Women Fault Men Sit Starved Back Everyone Hunted Scare Dates Had Genetic Talk Around Quiet Get Get Together Difference Then Much Theory Lest Away Societies

If intelligent robots are our competitors and, to some extent, cerebrally alike - enough for us to discuss their ethical standing - why would they be above the law? Should they not contribute to our societies, too? And why would they be exempt from taxes? Jens Martin Skibsted

Institutionalized discrimination is bad for people and for societies. Widespread discrimination is also bad for economies. There is clear evidence that when societies enact laws that prevent productive people from fully participating in the workforce, economies suffer. Jim Yong Kim

People Evidence Bad Laws Prevent Clear Participating Economies Institutionalized Also Enact Discrimination Workforce Productive Fully Suffer Societies Widespread

The strong emergence of pro-feminine values in highly masculine societies signals that traditional masculine structures will continue to be challenged as the Millennial generation grows up and gains even more influence. John Gerzema

Generation Strong Will Values Signals Emergence More Structures Masculine Highly Traditional Continue Up Influence Gains Even Challenged Grows Societies

Many people crave security and stability rather than risk-taking, and that doesn't make them any less American. They are the workers rather than the job creators, and all societies need both. John Podhoretz

I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences. John Pomfret

What I argued in 'The Great Divide' is that societies can't function without trust, both politically and economically. Joseph Stiglitz

Great Trust Both Divide Argued Economically Without Politically Function Societies

When conflicts end non-violently, it's more likely that the result will be longer-lasting, democratic societies. Julia Bacha

Result Will More Likely Democratic Democratic Societies End Conflicts Societies

Democratic societies need a strong media, and WikiLeaks is part of that media. Julian Assange

Strong Wikileaks Part Democratic Democratic Societies Media Societies Need

What history taught me is that societies are not static and that the straight line of progressive ideals - this thinking we have that a society will just magically become more egalitarian over time - is patently false. Kameron Hurley

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