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Quote For The Day

By The Daily Dish
Sep 24 2008, 10:17 AM ET

Minerva

"The task of building a world community is man’s final necessity and possibility, but also his final impossibility. It is a necessity and possibility because history is a process which extends the freedom of man over natural process to the point where universality is reached. It is an impossibility because man is, despite his increasing freedom, a finite creature, wedded to time and place and incapable of building any structure of culture or civilization which does not have its foundations in a particular and dated locus," - Reinhold Niebuhr, "The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness".

We need Niebuhr now more than ever.



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