U N I T Y
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
