How should fidelity to country be manifested? It must combine reverence for founding principles with responsible critique and relentless pursuit of just laws.
When someone disagrees with us deeply, a great choice lies before us: Do we engage and investigate what is being argued—OR find one of many ways to dismiss the person making the argument?
The principles of liberty, equality and honoring our common humanity are inconsistent with race prejudice. Those remain the best weapon ever formed against it, today as in 1865.
The basic bargain of democracy is that citizens mutually forswear political violence.
