"Collectivism is a doctrine that holds
that the individual has no rights, and the ultimate standard of value is
the group to which 'he belongs.' Racism is the lowest, most crudely
primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral,
social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage—the notion
that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and
transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice,
that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by
the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors. Racism claims
that the content of a man’s mind (not his cognitive apparatus, but its
content) is inherited; that a man’s convictions, values and character
are determined before he is born, by physical factors beyond his
control. This is the caveman’s version of the doctrine of innate ideas
-- or of inherited knowledge -- which has been thoroughly refuted by
philosophy and science. Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes. It
is a barnyard or stock-farm version of collectivism, appropriate to a
mentality that differentiates between various breeds of animals, but not
between animals and men. Like every form of determinism, racism
invalidates the specific attribute which distinguishes man from all
other living species: his rational faculty. Racism negates two aspects
of man’s life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them
with chemical predestination." -- Ayn Rand
(1905-1982) Author Source: Racism, The Virtue of Selfishness, 126
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ayn.Rand.Quote.7415
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