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 cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
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 basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.
...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 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.