For all the injustices in our past and our present, we have to believe that in the free exchange of ideas, justice will prevail over injustice, tolerance over intolerance and progress over reaction.
ATTRIBUTION:
Hillary Rodham Clinton (b. 1947), U.S. attorney; First Lady of the United States. As quoted in the New York Times, p. A17 (May 18, 1993).
From the First Lady’s commencement speech a day earlier at the University of Pennsylvania, which had recently experienced racial conflicts.
