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

Reinhold Niebuhr

1944

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Democracy Political theory Human nature Politics

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Political literature

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1944

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Reinhold Niebuhr

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Niebuhr, Reinhold. The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944.

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