"No loss will define us, no conflict will defeat us. We are the weak who have become strong, we are peaceful but never passive...."

"No sorrow will overwhelm us, no injustice will imprison us. No loss will define us, no conflict will defeat us. We are the weak who have become strong, we are peaceful but never passive. Our strength is in our faith, our vision in our prayers. We are the common believers, the community of equals who are never the same. These days may seem uncertain, but one thing about them is always sure: the victory of the poor and the dispossessed, the return of the honest and the good, the final transformation of hope over every tyranny fear can imagine."
--The Rt. Rev. Steven Charleston, Native American/Indigenous Ministries of the Episcopal Church