It was reactionary, administered begrudgingly and nowhere near righteous in nature.
In Fard's basement mosque, he told his followers that they were righteous muslims by nature, the true heirs to the glories of a "Nation of Islam" that was older than the sun, moon, and stars.
David Ownby wrote that he found the brief message to be "difficult to interpret": on its surface, the scripture resembled a "call to arms" against what Li described as "evil beings who no longer have any human nature or righteous thoughts".
"What the public has yet to see clearly," Mendell wrote in his biography of Obama, "is his hidden side: his imperious, mercurial, self-righteous and sometimes prickly nature".
But, between these two horrific events, we have seen many other instances of gender-based violence that expose the hollow nature of the righteous indignation expressed by public officials, political parties and journalists alike.
I collected the images, which elicited the web's most natural emotional state – righteous indignation – and a global debate about the nature of mourning and respect.
Addressing fellow blacks in suffering rather than white people needing to be convinced of his reasonable nature, Dr. King spoke with both righteous anger and pastoral tenderness.
Ignorance about the true nature of addiction fuels these self-righteous stands by politicians.
Safire was not the originator of the psychology of the self-righteous onslaught, "ten eyes for an eye" -- human nature found it long ago -- but he was the American of his generation who almost made it respectable.
She starts out as an innocent blonde who awakens to the true nature of power in her world, and uses righteous force to fight for a bold new vision of the future.
