“The mind of man is not sufficiently capacious to attend to every thing at once, and while it suffers itself to be eaten up by narrow prejudices or fretted by personal politics, it will have neither relish nor appetite for public virtues.”
The decision thus becomes what it is we allow our minds to dwell upon.
Something to remember when considering the true nature of a divisive public discourse that panders to fear and the selfish politics of personal bigotry and prejudice.
We must guard against such a thing from happening, and when it does, have the insight to realize it and the will to do something about it.
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