The One Intolerable:

Intolerance

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is what we need

“It's an universal law-- 

intolerance is the first sign 

of an inadequate education. 

An ill-educated person behaves 

with arrogant impatience, 

whereas truly profound 

education breeds humility.” 

                   Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Resolve to be tender with 

the young, compassionate 

with the aged, sympathetic 

with the striving, and 

tolerant of the weak 

and the wrong. 

Sometime in life you will 

have been all of these.” 

                Lloyd Shearer

“It is now no more that 

toleration is spoken of, 

as if it was by the

indulgence of one class 

of people, that another 

enjoyed the exercise of 

their inherent natural rights. 

For happily the government 

of the United States, 

which gives to bigotry 

no sanction - to persecution 

no assistance, requires only 

that they who live 

under its protection 

should demean themselves 

as good citizens.” 

George Washington 

First US President

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Fascinating:

"Paradox of tolerance: 

Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.” 

Karl R. Popper, 

The Open Society and Its Enemies