Fear weakens the nerves and distorts the judgment. It is not by fear that mankind must exorcise the demon of destruction and cruelty, but by motives more reasonable, more humane and more heroic.

— Emily Greene Balch Toward Human Unity or Beyond Nationalism (1948)

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