1/ This will one day be seen as Americas era of reckoning. All the accumulated layers of compromise with the principles on which we purport to stand, now exploding in our faces as their inevitable consequences.

2/ We will either allow this to destroy us, or we will use it as the time to reimagine and recreate our future. “These are not beautiful times, but they are our times.” - Jean Paul Sartre

"Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it." -Albert Camus