Baboquivari Peak, holy to the Tohono O'odham
people of southern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico
"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much."
- From Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country
"Social justice is not a mandate to equally distribute; seen through the lens of Christianity it is an internal attitude like that of Christ's, who, being rich, makes himself poor to share his love with the poor."
- the late Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero
"Ahmad from Guinea makes my falafel sandwich and says
So this is your country
Yes Amadou this my country
And these my people
Evacuated as if criminal
Rescued by neighbors
Shot by soldiers
Adamant they belong
The rest of the world can now see
What I have seen
Do not look away
The rest of the world lives here too
In America"
- From Suheir Hammad's "Of Refuge and Language"
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