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"I know. I know but will do nothing as long as this benefits me. Only later, when it ceases to benefit me, will I proclaim in great heaving sobs my grief that such a thing was ever allowed to happen. And you, all of you, will indulge my obliviousness now and my repentance later, because what affords me both is, in the end, not some finely honed argument of logic or moral primacy, but the blunt barrel of a gun."

"The implicit assumption is that certain people are incapable of responding to their mistreatment with grace, with patience, with love, and that this incapacity, not any external injustice, is responsible for the misery inflicted upon them."

"But surely any true appreciation of beauty would admit, exclaim even, that no description of the moon, no matter how stunning, how true, reflects as much beauty back into the world as a missile obliterating a family in their home takes out of it."

"Is there distance great enough, to be free of this? To be made clean?"