An epidemic of despair...

If violence is the symptom of despair then the sporadic and systematic violence that characterizes our world betrays an epidemic of dispair. We despair of justice, we despair of reason, we despair of the other person and so we destroy the other person, and we prepare to be destroyed by the other person ourselves. In short, we despair. We are without hope for ourselves, for the other, for our world. -Theodore Jennings’ The Liturgy of Liberation