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===Niebuhr and black militants===
 
===Niebuhr and black militants===
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In the "Letter from Birmingham Jail" [[Martin Luther King]] wrote "Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals." King valued Niebuhr's social and ethical ideals. King attributed his own non-violent posture more to the influence of Niebuhr and [[Paul Tillich]] than to the example of [[Gandhi]].<ref> [http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/niebuhr-rediscovered/d72.shtml April 13, 1970 Letter to Niebuhr]</ref>  On the other hand Niebuhr was friendly to the whiteSouth, was never an active supporter of the ciivl rights movement and refused to sign petitions when asked by King.
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In the "Letter from Birmingham Jail" [[Martin Luther King]] wrote "Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals." King valued Niebuhr's social and ethical ideals. King attributed his own non-violent posture more to the influence of Niebuhr and [[Paul Tillich]] than to the example of [[Gandhi]].<ref> [http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/niebuhr-rediscovered/d72.shtml April 13, 1970 Letter to Niebuhr]</ref>  On the other hand Niebuhr was friendly to the white South, was never an active supporter of the ciivl rights movement and refused to sign petitions when asked by King.
    
==="The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world"===
 
==="The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world"===
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