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It’s better to light a match than to curse the darkness.

Executive Assistant District Attorney Benjamin Stone to District Attorney Adam Schiff in “Sanctuary”, season 4, episode 19 of Law & Order. An African-American youth mistook an Italian-American man to be Jewish and beat him to death during an anti-Semitic race riot. The case was declared a mistrial and Stone wanted to bring the case to court a second time. To this, Schiff replies, “Even if it lights a fuse that could blow up the city? I’m trying to straddle a fence so that this city can heal. Can you understand that?” Stone answers, “Yep. I understand. I understand that the cure is worse than the disease.” The gap between justice and pragmatism is one that is easy to grasp, but difficult to swallow.