Tolerance, kindness and dignity have a unique place among moral principles. When tolerance is gone, there's always force and violence, not to mention ashes always fly back into the face of him who throws them to some one else!
Just imagine a world, full of people with same opinion, how dull that world would be! The price of the democratic way of life is a growing appreciation of people's differences, not merely as tolerable, but as the essence of a rich and rewarding human experience.
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