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Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used to call good evil and evil good.
Charles Colson
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Charles Colson
Age: 80 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 16
Died: 2012
Died: April 21
Former White House Counsel
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Charles Chuck Wendell Colson
Charles Wendell Colson
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