We who claim to love peace and justice must always be careful that we do not use our righteousness to provoke the violent, and in this way bring about the conflict for which we, too, like other men, are hungering in secret, and with suppressed barbarity.

Thomas Merton (1915-1968) French-American religious and writer [a.k.a. Fr. M. Louis]

“Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”