[reinhold] Niebuhr Endorsed G.k.chesterton’s Observation That Tolerance

Most People No Longer Live In Nuclear Families At All.

We Do Not Need To Minimize The Poverty Of The Ghetto Or The Suffering Inflicted By Whites On Blacks In Order To See That The Increasingly Dangerous And Unpredictable Conditions Of Middle-class Life Have Given Rise To Similar Strategies For Survival. Indeed The Attraction Of Black Culture For Disaffected Whites Suggests That Black Culture Now Speaks To A General Condition.

Democracy In Our Time Is More Likely To Die Of Indifference Than Of Intolerance.

Uprootedness Uproots Everything Except The Need For Roots.

The Hope Of A New Politics Does Not Lie In Formulating A Left-wing Reply To The Right-it Lies In Rejecting Conventional Political Categories.