Morality, to be effective, has to be well-reasoned. To want to repress evil only by coercion, and to obtain morality by a kind of education using constraint, without motivating it from within, is to make an artificial thing, devoid of lasting value.

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

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