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There is no social evil, no form of injustice whether of the feudal or the capitalist order which has not been sanctified in some way or other by religious sentiment and thereby rendered more impervious to change.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Reinhold Niebuhr
Age: 78 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 21
Died: 1971
Died: June 1
Ethicist
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Wright City
Missouri
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Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.
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It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.
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