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Indeed much of what makes the country great is its willingness to wage war against the bigotry within its own midst, and thus never delude itself into thinking such bigotry to be mythical. That war is long, and results are often not made manifest in the lifetime of its greatest partisans. But the story of this country is a narrative of a nation growing more tolerant, not less. The primary authors of that narrative are people who, in their best hours, refused to delude themselves.