If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
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Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
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That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
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