QUOTE: From the Jerusalem Post. I don't (entirely) approve of the sentiment, but it's hard not to feel the passion in the example:
"Going back to Moses, Isaiah and Jeremiah, the Jews have thundered against injustice and railed against oppression. Moses became a leader not when he delivered a fiery speech to a party convention, but when he refused to turn away from a Hebrew slave being beaten and pretending that he just hadn't seen. He smote the Egyptian and rescued the oppressed slave even though by so doing he forever forfeited the pampered life of an Egyptian prince.
Had Moses attended the Jacques Chirac school of biblical policy, he would have sent in arms inspectors to remove the whip from the Egyptian's hands, after which they would have negotiated some lucrative deal to build pyramids together. "
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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