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Adam Gopnik

“to argument, aware of human fallibility and open to the lessons of experience. An understanding that small, open social institutions, if no larger than a café or more overtly political than a park, play an outsized role in creating free minds and securing public safety. A faith in rational debate, rather than inherited ritual, and in reform, rather than either revolution or reaction. A belief in radical change through practial measures. A readiness to act—nonviolently but visibly and sometimes in the face of threatened violence—on behalf of equality. A belief that life should be fair—or fairer, or as fair as seems fair: people’s lives should not be overdetermined by who their parents were or how much money they might have inherited or what shade of skin their genes have woven. A belief that the individual pursuit of eccentric happiness can be married to a common faith in fair procedure.”

Adam Gopnik, A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
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A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism by Adam Gopnik
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