Cindy Bourgeois

“The art of progress is to reserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

“But if the only thing defining us is trauma, or wounding, most of us wouldn’t be here. Our stories are about far more than the dominant presumption of Indigenous lack or deficiency; our bodies are not only objects of contestation, or devastation, or pain, or suffering.”
― Daniel Heath Justice, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

“The Right thinks that the breakdown of the family is the source of crime and poverty, and this they very insightfully blame on the homosexuals, which would be amusing were it not so tragic. Families and 'family values' are crushed by grinding poverty, which also makes violent crime and drugs attractive alternatives to desperate young men and sends young women into prostitution. Family values are no less corrupted by the corrosive effects of individualism, consumerism, and the accumulation of wealth. Instead of shouting this from the mountain tops, the get-me-to-heaven-and-the-rest-be-damned Christianity the Christian Right preaches is itself a version of selfish spiritual capitalism aimed at netting major and eternal dividends, and it fits hand in glove with American materialism and greed.”
― John D. Caputo, What Would Jesus Deconstruct?: The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
― Mark Twain