Tolerance

[hopealwayz]

From "Working with Others:"

"We are careful never to show intolerance or hatred
of drinking as an institution. Experience shows that
such an attitude is not helpful to anyone. Every new
alcoholic looks for this spirit among us and is
immensely relieved when he finds we are not witch
burners. A spirit of intolerance might repel
alcoholics
whose lives could have been saved, had it not been
for such stupidity. We would not even do the cause
of temperate drinking any good, for not one drinker
in a thousand likes to be told anything about alcohol
by one who hates it."

c. 2001, Alcoholics Anonymous, page 103