Love not Hate.

"If they be good workmen, they may be from Asia, Africa, or Europe; they may be Mohammedans, Jews, or Christians of any sect, or they may be Atheists."

--George Washington

"For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection, should demean themselves as good citizens."

--George Washington

"Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance."

--John McCain, 2000

"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all."

--John W. Gardener

"What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant; The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents"

--Robert F. Kennedy

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