For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion.

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Melek Taus / The Peacock Angel - Samuel Adams On Religion, Tolerance, & Humanity

"In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practised, and, both by precept and example, inculcated on mankind."
- Samuel Adams

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Man Already Knows Everything He Needs To Know About Muslims | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Over the past decade, Gentries said he has taken pains to avoid personal interactions or media that might have the potential to compromise his point of view. He told reporters that the closest he had come to confronting a contrary standpoint was tuning in to the first few seconds of an interview with a moderate Muslim cleric before hastily turning off the television.

"I almost gave in and listened to that guy defend Islam with words I didn't want to hear," Gentries said. "But then I remembered how much easier it is to live in a world of black-and-white in which I can assign the label of 'other' to someone and use him as a vessel for all my fears and insecurities."

Added Gentries, "That really put things back into perspective.

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Van Der Graaf Generator - The Undercover Man

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"We need to actively cultivate the antidotes to hatred: patience and tolerance."
- Dalai Lama

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