“Gold never doubted that racial discrimination was atrocious, unjust, and despicably cruel and degrading. But he knew in his heart that he much preferred it the old way, when he was safer. Things had been much better for him when they had been much worse.”
-Joseph Heller, Good as Gold
One of the great truisms of life is that it is better to know where you stand with someone who hates you than guess because someone is too polite to tell you. If that is true, what can we learn about honesty and integrity?
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