On conscience "The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." — Harper Lee, author of Killing a Mocking Bird Yet Lee met George W. Bush, a war criminal , and received a medal from him in 2007. Also he was a president who maintained the biggest incarceration system with most of the incarcerated are blacks as well as Guantanamo Bay, defending torture and waterboardng, etc.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51