In A Democracy, Dissent Is An Act

To Ask For Overt Renunciation Of A Cherished Doctrine Is To Expect Too Much Of Human Nature. Men Do Not Repudiate The Doctrines And Dogmas To Which They Have Sworn Their Loyalty. Instead They Rationalize, Revise, And Re-interpret Them To Meet New Needs And New Circumstances, All The While Protesting That Their Heresy Is The Purest Orthodoxy.

Education Is The Best Means-probably The Only Means-by Which Nations Can Cultivate A Degree Of Objectivity About Each Other's Behavior And Intentions. It Is The Means By Which Russians And Americans Can Come To Understand Each Others' Aspirations For Peace And How The Satisfactions Of Everyday Life May Be Achieved.

The Essence Of Intercultural Education Is The Acquisition Of Empathy-the Ability To See The World As Others See It, And To Allow For The Possibility That Others May See Something We Have Failed To See, Or May See It More Accurately. The Simple Purpose Of The Exchange Program...is To Erode The Culturally Rooted Mistrust That Sets Nations Against One Another. The Exchange Program Is Not A Panacea But An Avenue Of Hope.

We Would Be Deliberately Violating The Fundamental Obligations We Assumed In The Act Of Bogota Establishing The Organization Of American States.

The American Public Has Become So Conditioned By Crises, By Warnings, By Words, That There Are Few, Other Than The Young, Who Protest Against What Is Happening.