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" Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. "
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Man
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" Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. "
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