βLet’s lay it right on the line. Bigotry and racism are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today. But, unlike a team of costumed super-villains, they canβt be halted with a punch in the snoot, or a zap from a ray gun. The only way to destroy them is to expose them β to reveal them for the insidious evils they really are. The bigot is an unreasoning hater β one who hates blindly, fanatically, indiscriminately. If his hang-up is black men, he hates ALL black men. If a redhead onc offended him, he hates ALL redheads. If some foreigner beat him to a job, heβs down on ALL foreigners. He hates people heβs never seen β people heβs never known β with equal intensity β with equal venom.
βNow, weβre not trying to say itβs unreasonable for one human being to bug another. But, although anyone has the right to dislike another individual, itβs totally irrational, patently insane to condemn an entire race β to despise an entire nation β to vilify an entire religion. Sooner or later, we must learn to judge each other on our own merits. Sooner or later, if man is ever to be worthy of his destiny, we must fill out hearts with tolerance. For then, and only then, will we be truly worthy of the concept that man was created in the image of God β a God who calls us ALL β His children.
βPax et Justitia, Stan.β
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