“The Constitution favors no racial group, no political or social group.”
William O. Douglas (1898–1980) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Dissenting, Uphaus v. Wyman, 364 U.S. 388, 406 (1960)
Judicial opinions
“Social distance among ethnic or racial groups.”
Living Systems: Basic Concepts (1969)
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Arthur Jensen (1923–2012) professor of educational psychology
Source: Differential Psychology: Towards Consensus (1987), pp. 430-1
Context: The key theme in Gordon’s chapter, that lends it theoretical coherence, is his clear perception that the guiding force in my own work in mental measurement arises principally from my constant search for construct validity that can embrace the widest range of phenomena in differential psychology. In my philosophy, science is an unrelenting battle against ad hoc explanation. No other field in psychology with which I have been acquainted has been so infested by ad hoc theories as the attempts to explain social class, racial, and ethnic group differences on various tests of mental ability. My pursuit of what I have called the Spearman hypothesis (Jensen, 1985a), which is nicely explicated by Gordon, represents an effort to displace various ad hoc views of the black-white differences on psychometric tests by pointing out the relationship of the differences to the g loadings of tests, thereby bringing the black-white difference into the whole nomothetic network of the g construct. It is within this framework, I believe, that the black-white difference in psychometric tests and all their correlates, will ultimately have to be understood. Understanding the black-white difference is part and parcel of understanding the nature of g itself. My thoughts about researching the nature of g have been expounded in a recent book chapter (Jensen, 1986b). Enough said. Gordon’s chapter speaks for itself, and, with his three commentaries on the chapters by Osterlind, Shepard, and Scheuneman, leaves little else for me to add to this topic.
“Modern science rests on a universality that transcends ethnic, racial, and religious frameworks.”
Varadaraja V. Raman (1932) American physicist
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Ilana Mercer South African writer
“The Kindness of (Caucasian) Strangers” http://barelyablog.com/the-kindness-of-caucasian-stangers, Barely A Blog, January 31, 2014. <br class="br">2010s, 2014
Richard Pipes (1923–2018) American historian
Source: Russia Under The Bolshevik Regime (1994), p. 262
Augusto Boal (1931–2009) Brazilian writer
World Theater Day Message, Geneva, Switzerland (2009)
Context: When we look beyond appearances, we see oppressors and oppressed people, in all societies, ethnic groups, genders, social classes and casts; we see an unfair and cruel world. We have to create another world because we know it is possible. But it is up to us to build this other world with our hands and by acting on the stage and in our own life.
Daniel J. Fairbanks (1956) American artist
Source: Everyone is African: How Science Explodes the Myth of Race (2015), pp. 154–155.
Samuel Bowles (1939) American economist
Source: Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change, 2005, p. 50
“One culture, one civilization, one language, and one ethnic group.”
Tarō Asō (1940) 92nd Prime Minister of Japan
About Japan, as quoted in "Ghosts of Wartime Japan Haunt Koizumi's Cabinet" http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=f6f50bd7a1687ece711a7ef721bb6fb8 (3 November 2005), by Christopher Reed, New America Media.