In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls. β¨ Wendell Berry (2003). The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry, p.181, Counterpoint
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