Sarah Vowell Quote
The First Amendment, he explained, exposed tolerance as a sham, because tolerance implies one superior group of people deigning to put up with their inferiors. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of as if it were the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights, Washington wrote. For, happily, the Government of the United States . . . gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance. Of
Sarah Vowell
The First Amendment, he explained, exposed tolerance as a sham, because tolerance implies one superior group of people deigning to put up with their inferiors. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of as if it were the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights, Washington wrote. For, happily, the Government of the United States . . . gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance. Of
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