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We envisage for our people a way of life, demanding a social and political atmosphere where every individual has the right and the opportunity to bring about the fullest development of his ideas, his personality, his special aptitude, and to achieve his ideas, consistently with the similar right and opportunity vested in others. That way of life demands a sprite of tolerance and respect for the views of others, and a desire and an attempt to understand and appreciate their points of view, whether they be in the majority or in the minority. It demands self discipline, a capacity to resist, a tendency to shut down those who do not agree. In a democratic society everyone is entitled to hold, subject to certain limited exceptions in the larger interest of society, express and propagate views.The low voice of dissent has often been right in a relative sense, and the popular clamour resulting form the enthusiasm of a momentary stimulus was hopelessly in the wrong. Tolerance of the view of others is not merely a capacity to put up with and ignore the view of others who may follow the path which you think is wrong; it is a positive approach, a positive concept which carries with it the desire and the capacity to appreciate, understand and give real thought to the validity of the point of view of others with whom you do not agree.