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Reinhold Niebuhr (1960, 80–89) spoke aptly of “the feeble mind of a nation.” If individual persons were so unaware of the facts of their lives as nations often are, we would classify them as retarded. An example is at hand: it is just now dawning on the feeble mind of this American nation that we are an empire.
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Maguire, D.C. (2007). Religion, Power, and the American Empire. In: Friman, H.R. (eds) Challenges and Paths to Global Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230603141_9
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