Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Called to Sympathy and Action
By Regina Nigro — 2010
Mere waiting and looking on is not Christian behavior.
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