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June 1946

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No Time for Mere Tolerance

We in A.A. are set in a great system of reciprocity and interdependence upon which our whole existence rests. We cannot follow the modern-fashion. It will take stronger stuff than this to build in a world so near to catastrophe. What we need more than a fashionable tolerance, which is fundamentally patronizing in spirit, is a burning faith which can change men's lives. Power comes not by supposing that one view is as good as another, but by finding in honest inquiry what the objective truth seems to be and then following it with stubborn courage tempered by humility.

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