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The way to the organic, active peace of brotherhood leads through the hearts of peacemakers who will knit together, with patience and self-sacrifice, the shorn and tangled fibers of human aspirations, faith, and hopes, who will transcend the fears and dangers of an adventure of trust. The road to unity is the road of repentance.

H. Richard Niebuhr

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H. Richard Niebuhr
Age: 67 †
Born: 1894
Born: September 3
Died: 1962
Died: July 5
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Wright City
Missouri
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