Yet tolerance has no cohesive nor healing power in society. It means little more than leaving one another alone. It leads to indifference, not understanding. Tolerance allows the gulfs between us to remain in place. In fact, there is little in the concept of tolerance to pull us away from racial isolation.
Tolerance brings with it an implicit moral relativism.
Moral relativism suggests that there are no absolutes to which we can all be held accountable. Such a thing was far from the thinking of Martin Luther King. Dr. King did not speak in terms of tolerance. His ideal was love. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.