Mason

“The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.”
― Mary Crow Dog, Lakota Woman

“The hostility of the Christian churches to the Sun Dance was not very logical. After all, they worship Christ because he suffered for the people, and a similar religious concept lies behind the Sun Dance, where the paticipants pierce their flesh with skewers to help someone dear to them. The main difference, as Lame Deer used to say, is that Christians are content to let Jesus do all the suffering for them whereas Indians give of their own flesh, year after year, to help others.”
― Mary Crow Dog, Lakota Woman

“Now and then
I walk backwards.
It is my way of remembering.
If I only walked forward,
I could tell you
about forgetting.”
― Humberto Ak'abal

“Politics is a form of selective amnesia. The people who survive it are our only insurance against forgetting.”
― Jonathan Blitzer, Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis