“Life, in that it is life, necessarily entails justice.”

—  Martin Buber

"Politics and Morality" in Be'ayot (April 1945), as published in A Land of Two Peoples : Martin Buber on Jews and Arabs (1983) edited by Paul Mendes-Flohr, p. 169

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German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian 1878–1965

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