Sometimes they are as anxious to offer moral justifications for the brutalities from which they suffer as for those which they commit. (Reinhold Niebuhr)

Sometimes they are as anxious to offer moral justifications for the brutalities from which they suffer as for those which they commit.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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