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...world today bears a tremendous burden of guilt from which none can shy away. There is a debt which is owed to Jewish civilization the likes of which can never be repaid, for no consolation from the world can restore the smallest measure of dignity to a people whom they aimed to dehumanize...
...long twilight struggle for justice will be won only if racism is eradicated. America salves her conscience with economic programs and formal civil rights legislation. Yet our nation continues to sin, and an egregious guilt rests upon our soul...
...their libelous letter, Daniels and Kilson present case-studies of exacerbation of attempts at reconciliation. In my original letter, I implored Professor Kilson, "What can we Americans do to soothe our collective soul?" Daniels takes a 25 year-old who denies any personal guilt for the slavery of 130 years ago and he attacks that person as one might attack a Patrick Buchanan. Kilson calls my letter "morally vacuous...
...nonsense of universal guilt--a sneaky bravado posing as self-accusation--has yet to show up in the wake of the slaughter in Scotland. What happened there was so surprising and so unrefractedly awful that it was almost impossible to react dishonestly to it. The mind simply filled with pain and disgust, and pure incomprehension...
Another speaker blasted American society for its blame-shifting. "We live in a no-fault, no-guilt society. The trial of the century was O.J., but the trial of eternity is Jesus Christ.... We are sinners, we are murderers...