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Post by Tamrin on Jul 3, 2008 21:30:48 GMT 10
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 5, 2008 11:30:47 GMT 10
'...A moral and altruistic organisation actually behaving according to its precepts,' is the brilliant ideal envisaged by Professors Rich and Reyes in, ‘Black Women Freemasons: Gender, Race and Fraternalism in American Society: The ultimate test of social change in America?’ (Draft: Mid Atlantic PCA & ACA, Philadelphia, October 1996, in G.D. Murray—Editor—Gleanings, Issue 61, South Australian Lodge of Research, Marden, 2000, p.6).
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 20, 2009 6:42:07 GMT 10
Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant
Sidney Hook (Born this day 1902)
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 31, 2009 8:36:07 GMT 10
What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable
Dominique de Menil (Died this day 1997)
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 1, 2010 9:55:33 GMT 10
Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things
E.M. Forster (Born this day 1879)
[Instead, wherever possible, welcome and celebrate inclusion!]
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 11, 2010 6:37:13 GMT 10
Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices
William James (Born this day 1842)
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 25, 2010 8:54:01 GMT 10
Tolerance is another word for indifference
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety
Somerset Maugham (Born this day 1874)
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