PPT Slide
“In private life we associate with people who share similar outlooks and values. In public life we meet people from backgrounds unlike our own. The first principle should not be that we’re all the same — an assumption privileging dominant cultural groups — but rather that we are dissimilar. This leads to a recognition of the moral ambiguity of politics, the awareness that we cannot expect simply to impose our values.”
Harry C. Boyte, “The Pragmatic Ends of Popular Politics” in Habermas and the Public Sphere, MIT Press (1992), pp. 351-52.