Merely legal guarantees of the civil liberties of free belief, free
expression, free assembly are of little avail if in daily life freedom
of communication, the give and take of ideas, facts, experiences, is
choked by mutual suspicion, by abuse, by fear and hatred. These things
destroy the essential condition of the democratic way of living even
more effectually than open coercion which--as the example of
totalitarian states proves--is effective only when it succeeds in
breeding hate, suspicion, intolerance in the minds of individual human
beings.
-- John
Dewey.
Creative
Democracy -- The Task Before Us.
In J. Boydston (Ed.),
John Dewey: The later works, 1925-1953, volume 14
(pp. 224-230). Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. (Original
work published 1939)