I Have
Become Obsessed
With This
Deep Feeling
of Hate
I have become obsessed with this deep feeling of hate and anger that
has swept across this city and this land. I have been fighting it, battling
with it, until it has fairly driven me mad, until I sometimes wonder whether
every righteous human emotion has not gone down in the raging storm. I
am not pleading so much for these boys as I am for the infinite number
of others to follow, those who perhaps cannot be as well defended as these
have been, those who may go down in the storm, and the tempest, without
aid. It is of them I am thinking, and for them I am begging of this court
not to turn backward toward the barbarous and cruel past.
