Ashley Montagu
Ashley Montagu
Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu, previously known as Israel Ehrenberg, was a British-American anthropologist who popularized the study of topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development. He was the rapporteur, in 1950, for the UNESCO statement The Race Question. As a young man he changed his name from Ehrenberg to "Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu". After relocating to the United States he used the name "Ashley Montagu". Montagu, who became a naturalized American citizen in 1940, taught and...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth28 June 1905
The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle
The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.
To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom.
In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.
...the original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live...
Hatred is love frustrated.
The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional gratification, the feeling of strength, the composure, and the sense of fulfillment that comes with the handling and suckling of the baby.
The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.
It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable
No one should be required to see America for the first time.
The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings of insecurity, fear of economic competition, guilt feelings, and the like. Many of the leaders of the feminist movement in the nineteenth-century United States clearly understood the similarity of the motives at work in antifeminism and race discrimination and associated themselves with the anti slavery movement.