"Now, you know I’m no bigot, Lorie. I don’t care how many eyes, tentacles, eating orifices, or antennae an organism happens to have, so long as it knows its stuff. What I object to is having someone who is professionally inferior jacked into an expedition simply for the sake of racial balance."
Robert Silverberg

January 1, 1970

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Chapter 1 (p. 14)

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Silverberg