Tight Budgets Accomplish for Juvenile Justice What Fighting Fear Could Not [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 5/17/1712:00 PM

(Part 7)

Fear begets lies that suppress truth.

We Americans take pride in our democracy. Abraham Lincoln aptly described it as “government of the people, by the people, for the people.”

At the core of democracy is the power of persuasion, the ability to forge a majority to take a position. But it was also Lincoln who warned us to guard against the dark side of democracy, or what he referred to in his speech on “The Perpetuation of our Political Institutions” as “mob law.”

Our democracy is most at risk not from those outside our boundaries, but from those within who take liberty with our fundamental right of free speech to arouse the passions of people against the minority.

[For more of this story, written by Steven Teske, go to http://jjie.org/2017/05/17/tig...ting-fear-could-not/]

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