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We're either going to save Ihe world or no one will be saved. ↗

— Maurice Strong

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If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?" ↗

— Josiah Strong

#america #amiss #any #beyond #central

In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#christian #christianity #civil #civil liberty #civilization

It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#elsewhere #greater #poor #poorer #poverty

We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse. ↗

— Maurice Strong

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There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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