What is good for one man or one class of men will bring ills to other men or classes of men.

What is good for the community as a whole may mean temporary loss and a sense of injustice to a minority.
All grievances from any cause should receive full expression in a democracy, but, inasmuch as the righteously discontented must be always with us, the fundamental democratic principle should, above all, counsel mutual forbearance and loyalty.

The principle of equal rights encourages mutual suspicion and disloyalty.

It tends to attribute individual and social ills, for which general moral, economic, and social causes are usually in large measure responsible, to individual wrong-doing; and in this way it arouses and intensifies that personal and class hatred, which never in any society lies far below the surface.

Men who have grievances are inflamed into anger and resentment.