America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance

Fulton J. Sheen
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America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance - it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded. ✨ A Plea For Intolerance. Essay by Fulton J. Sheen, 1931.
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