“I have confidence in the laws of morals as of botany. I have planted maize in my field every June for seventeen years and I never knew it come up strychnine. My parsley, beet, turnip, carrot, buck-thorn, chestnut, acorn, are as sure. I believe that justice produces justice, and injustice injustice.”
from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1852 journal entry
Bit of Earth Farm 
… and I never knew ingrained oppression, intolerance and persecution to produce a contented, peaceful and prosperous nation.
Exactly.