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The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.

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

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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.

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

There is only one thing in the world that is really valuable, it is to do good.

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

We can, following the example of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.

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

To spend for destruction ten times more than for instruction, such is the fashion in our time; and men seriously regard themselves as rational beings!

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

It is not on the ruins of liberty that we may in the future build justice.

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

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