In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of …

J. William Fulbright
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In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects. ✨ 1966 Speech to the US Senate, 21 Apr.
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In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. ✨ 1966 Speech to the US Senate, 21 Apr.
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence. ✨ J. William Fulbright (2011). The Arrogance of Power, p.16, Random House
We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recogniz … ▶

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects. ✨ 1966 Speech to the US Senate, 21 Apr.

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