order survive, a plurality true communities require egalitarianism tol — Wendell Berry, Art Commonplace: Agrarian Essays

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In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination – the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls. (pg. 181, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community)

Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

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