Constructive Conflict?

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"...this country was born out of conflict. At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, 30 percent of the delegates walked out without signing the thing — and those who did sign disagreed so fundamentally that they were forced to create a conflict-holding system of government. In fact, they created the first form of government that treats conflict not as the enemy of a good social order but as the engine of a better social order. Conflict can be creative, and we have to recover that sensibility."

Parker Palmer, as quoted in interview with David Bornstein in NYT 9-4-14