The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr: Selected Essays and Addresses

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

“comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable”

“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.”