From the article "Our Goal Unity, but Germans Are Unfit" in Free World 8 (October 1944), no. 4, 370-371. A summary of the context is given in Einstein on Politics by David E. Rowe and Robert J. Schulmann (2005), p. 334.
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I think that it is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
— Albert Einstein and politics
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