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Reinhold Niebuhr

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

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Politics has the difficult responsibility of creating fairness and order despite the presence of human flaws and wrongdoing. This task is unfortunate because it must operate within a world full of moral failures and imperfections.

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