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The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.
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This new generation, for example, is not content with preachings against that vile form of collective murder - lynch law - which has broken out in our midst anew. We know that it is murder, and a deliberate and definite disobedience of the Commandment, "Thou shalt not kill."
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