“Do not allow your sorrow or your rage to become hostility toward people on the basis of their ethnicity or their religious views. That is unacceptable; it is out of bounds, and if you break the law, we will prosecute you for it.”

—  John Ashcroft

Source: Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006), p. 179

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