Heard in American History X

Abraham Lincoln: First Inaugural Address. U.S. Inaugural Addresses. 1989

We are not enemies, but friends.

We must not be enemies.

Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection.

The mystic chords of memory,

stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart

and hearthstone all over this broad land,

will yet swell the chorus of the Union,

when again touched, as surely they will be,

by the better angels of our nature.

***In American History X, once again we are reminded that violence begets violence.  Hatred begets hatred.  In the end, the death of someone dear hurts the violent man more than he would be, by his own death.