There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.
Would we be a better society if we made marriage simply a private contract between two individuals, with no wider implications of kinship and family? I do not believe that we would.
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
If we all looked out for each other a little bit more, I think we wouldn't have a lot of the crisis that we have in today's society.
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
The institution of marriage holds society together. We can't replace the family.
But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up.
If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.