"America's greatest enemy is not from without, but from within, and that enemy is hate: hatred of races, peoples, classes, and religions. If America ever dies, it will not be through conquest but suicide.
“It is heartening to know that there are many attempts to heal these wounds of hate. Principal among them are: pleas for tolerance, for the substitution of new hates, for example, Nazism, for the violent denunciation of groups as bigots. None of these remedies will eradicate hate. Tolerance pleas will not, for why should any creature on God’s earth be tolerated? Substitution of other hatreds will not work, for you cannot cure small hates by big hates…
“All these remedies are ineffective because they leave our heart unchanged with all its hidden uneasiness. Hate can be eradicated only by creating a new focus and that brings us to the third of the virtues, namely, charity."
—Ven. Fulton J. Sheen
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