Our trouble in dealing with tragedy is that is seems so pessimistic. In the Greek tragedies things were fated and there was no escape from the pain that life brings. In Shakespeare, we see people who suffer because of serious failings in their character or in the character of others. In House of Sand and Fog, fate plays a part when the county messes up and evicts Kathy from her home. The character
flaws of the people (especially of the deputy who is drawn to Kathy) move things away from any possibility of a reasonable resolution.
ON INJUSTICE
Be strong! It matters not how deep intrenched the wrong,
How hard the battle goes, the day how long;
Faint not—fight on!
Tomorrow comes the song.
--MALTBIE D. BABCOCK (1858–1901)
Can it be right to water the tree of knowledge with blood and stir its boughs with the gusts of bitter agony, that we may force its flowers into blossom before their time? . . . Shall I quiet my heart with the throbs of another heart? Soothe my nerves with the agonized tension of a system? Live a few days longer by a century of shrieking deaths? It were a hellish wrong, a selfish, hateful, violent injustice.
--GEORGE MACDONALD (1824–1905)
If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.
--HERACLITUS (C. 540–C. 480 B.C.)
ON INJUSTICE
Psalm 43:1 (NLT)
O God, take up my cause!
Defend me against these ungodly people.
Rescue me from these unjust liars.
Eccles. 3:16 (NLT)
I also noticed that throughout the world there is evil in the courtroom. Yes, even the courts of law are corrupt!
Zeph. 3:5 (NLT)
But the Lord is still there in the city, and he does no wrong. Day by day his justice is more evident, but no one takes notice—the wicked know no shame.
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