QuoteQuest“The needs of a society determine its ethics.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Maya Angelou
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
- Held by
- Wikiquote
Context
often misquoted as "The needs of society determine its ethics", and with less context than the full statement: "The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is
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Angelou, Maya. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Maya Angelou. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou
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