"We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference."

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Members of the United States House of RepresentativesMembers of the United States SenateWomen academics from the United StatesUnited States presidential candidates, 1964Politicians from Maine
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from an undated speech on Civil Rights; as cited in Hope and Fear in Margaret Chase Smith’s America, Gregory P. Gallant, Lexington Books (2014), p. 309 :