A society struggles to fulfill its best instincts, even as an individual does, and generally makes just as … - Margaret Halsey

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Whatever you accomplish in life is a manifestation not as much of what you do, as of what you believe you deserve.

Margaret Halsey

A society struggles to fulfill its best instincts, even as an individual does, and generally makes just as hard going of it. The fight against prejudice is an inevitable process. Man has been warring against his own lower nature ever since he found out he had one, and the battle against intolerance is part of the same old struggle between good and evil that has preoccupied us ever since we gave up swinging from trees.

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