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Niebuhr on Democracy

Posted: March 6, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , |Leave a comment »

Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

- Reinhold Niebuhr, The Children of Light and Children of Darkness.

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