The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes

“Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”
― Reinhold Niebuhr, The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr: Selected Essays and Addresses

“comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable”
― Reinhold Niebuhr, The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr: Selected Essays and Addresses

“It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.”
― Reinhold Niebuhr, The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr: Selected Essays and Addresses