"Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws."

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I contend that the continued racial classification of Homo sapiens represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a species. In other words, I reject a racial classification of humans for the same reasons that I prefer not to divide into subspecies the prodigiously variable West Indian land snails that form the subject of my own research.

— Stephen Jay Gould