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The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.

— Afrikan Spir Words of a Sage: Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937)

La réalisation de la justice est, dans l’état actuel des choses, une question de vie ou de mort pour la société et pour la civilisation elle-même.

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p. 55.

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