With everything in me screaming No! yet the sum of me sighed Yes. - James Baldwin

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their "vital interests" are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the "sanctity" of human life, or the "conscience" of the civilized world.

The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.