What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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