It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life and so frequently dangerous to democracy precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.
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Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
- Reinhold Niebuhr