Imagining Our Historical Amends
“No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.” —Josiah Royce
Imagining Our Ancestral Amends
Acts of injustice done / Between the setting and the rising sun / In history lie like bones, / each one. — Auden
Imagining Our Institutional Amends
“Sometimes a whole people needs healing work. Not a tribe, not a nation. Tribes and nations are just signs that the whole is diseased. The healing work that cures a whole people is the highest work, far higher than the cure of single individuals.”