8 Quotes by Gustav Niebuhr

Men and women believed and proclaimed God was firmly on their side – and easy and shallow assertion that reduced God to a sort of house deity.

Whipple called him by his Indian name: Enmegahbowh, which translates from the Ojibwe language as He Who Prays for His People While Standing.

There can be no understanding where there is mutual rejection.

The only alternative to talking is the building up of resentment and anger, which in the time must inevitably become open hostility and conflict.

The criticism that I think is more telling is that the only way you are going to knock out this terrorism eventually is not just through the force of arms, but through the force of ideas.

To reach beyond tolerance is to open oneself to getting to know others, to appreciate their role in the world.

Whipple, as an old man nearing death, would recall her words to him as a child: “Never hesitate to defend the weak.

The terrorism has been a generation growing. It’ll take a generation to knock it out.