Kenneth Mackenzie Clark

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    Rarely do American parents deliberately teach their children to hate members of another racial, religious, or nationality group. Many parents, however, communicate the prevailing racial attitudes to their children in subtle and sometimes unconscious ways.
    —Kenneth MacKenzie Clark (20th century)

    In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
    —John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)

    People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
    —Kenneth MacKenzie Clark, Baron of Saltwood (1903–1983)

    The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
    —Ramsey Clark (b. 1927)