the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us...
Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
civil-rights, cruelty, homosexuality, politics, religion, respect, tolerance, understanding, understanding-oneself-and-others, understanding-others