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society? The answer, de Tocqueville concluded, lay in
the commitment of Americans to democracy and self-
government. Civic participation, de Tocqueville argued
in Democracy in America, was the great educator and
the great unifier.
Schlesinger writes:
America increasingly sees itself as
composed of groups more or less
ineradicable in their ethnic
character...Will the center hold? or will
the melting pot give way to the Tower of
Babel?
We are lawyers. We believe in "Justice for All." It is
the power of that belief which will guarantee that the
center will hold.
The Apostle Paul said to Timothy: "the law is good,
if a man use it lawfully..." That is why pro bono
programs for lawyers make such good sense for this
Democratic Republic.
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Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996. Pro Bono Programs - Democracy's Guarantor, text, April 26, 1995; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth611287/m1/11/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Texas Southern University.