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Boas's last words, spoken to Paul Rivet, "We should never stop repeating the idea that racism is a monstrous error and an impudent lie."

The strongest moral schemas rest on the proven truth that humanity is one undivided whole.

Some Americans had taken to using shorthand acronyms--such as MIAFA, for "My interests are for America"--to signal their support for the values advanced by the Klan and other self-defined patriotic organizations.

Now what does that remind me of?

Must one always kick the other fellow just because one likes one's way of life?

Boas was making a point that required readers to make a difficult conceptual leap: he was asking Americans and western Europeans to suspend their belief in their own greatness.

...different ways of being human but also, in a way, to love them.