If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with morality. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's opposite - selfishness - that acts most strongly in us.

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

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

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