4 Quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr about groups

  • Author Reinhold Niebuhr
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    We don't properly discriminate. We never discriminate properly when we're dealing with another group and one of the big problems about religion is that religious people don't know that they are probably as flagrant in these misjudgments as irreligious people.

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  • Author Reinhold Niebuhr
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    All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

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    As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

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    The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.

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