In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

Glory and tragedy, courage and stupidity - one set of truths didn't negate the other. For war was contradiction, as was the history of America.

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

Our history has always been the sum total of the choices made and the actions taken by each individual man and woman. It has always been up to us.