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Americans Need To Face The Truth About Themselves, No Matter How Pleasant It Is.

All Of Us Confront Limits Of Body, Talent, Temperament. But That Is Not All. We Are, All Of Us, Also Constrained By Our Time, Our Place, Our Civilization.

Words Can Destroy. What We Call Each Other Ultimately Becomes What We Think Of Each Other, And It Matters.

I Was A Woman In A Man's World. I Was A Democrat In A Republican Administration. I Was An Intellectual In A World Of Bureaucrats. I Talked Differently. This May Have Made Me A Bit Like An Ink Blot.

Democracy Not Only Requires Equality But Also An Unshakable Conviction In The Value Of Each Person, Who Is Then Equal. Cross Cultural Experience Teaches Us Not Simply That People Have Different Beliefs, But That People Seek Meaning And Understand Themselves In Some Sense As Members Of A Cosmos Ruled By God.