God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. – Reinhold Niebuhr
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. – Reinhold Niebuhr
The finiteness, the dependency, and the insufficiency of man – Reinhold Niebuhr
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. – Reinhold Niebuhr
I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change were used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that were moving closer and closer to that tipping point. – Al Gore