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“This idea that it鈥檚 intolerant to object to anyone else鈥檚 position, hovever, is a complete perversion of the historic understanding of tolrance, which was that one had to have the respect to listen to anyone else鈥檚 point of view, even one with which one might profoundly disagree. Tolerance did not reject truth claims; it respected them.”
― Charles Colson

“I'm what the botanists call a hybrid," he said the first time Cora heard him speak, "A mixture of two different families. In flowers, such a concoction pleases the eye. When that amalgamation takes its shape in flesh and blood, some take great offence. In this room we recognize it for what it is - a new beauty come into the world, and it is in bloom all around us.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

“So it is that intelligent people often reserve their outrage almost exclusively for what they see as judgmental attitudes 鈥� - the one evil they are willing to indict with impunity.”
― Charles Colson

“The iron horse still rumbled through the tunnel when she woke. Lumbly's words returned to her: "If you want to see what this nation is all about, you have to ride the rails. Look outside as you speed through, and you'll find the true face of America." It was a joke, then, from the start. There was only darkness outside the windows on her journeys, and only ever would be darkness.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad