“We wanted to acknowledge all our relations, which include this land that the university is built upon and every tree and animal that lives here. We also wanted to acknowledge unity among all nations and challenge the political borders that have been imposed on our land and peoples.”
Caroline Stasulat
“Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.”
Bible
“By degrees the castles are built.”
Irish Proverb
“For others do I wait...for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“They showed you a statue and told you to prayThey built you a temple and locked you awayBut they never told you the price that you payFor things that you might have done.”
Billy Joel
“Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion.”
William Blake
