The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.
Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
We treated all of the dead with dignity.
Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.
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