God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying.The moral man is opposed to injustice wherever he finds it; the moral man looks for injustice first of all in himself.
[Bayard Rustin, Time on Two Crosses’ Collected Writings 1942-1986, Devon W. Carbado & Donald Weise, Editors 2003]
South Central Yearly Meeting, faith and practice, p. 16
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