No man has a right in America to treat any other man tolerantly, for tolerance is the assumption of superiority.
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A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.
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When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
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The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.
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It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
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In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.
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It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.
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We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free.
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