"So please honour Jesse’s memory by consciously changing an angry thought into a loving one, to make this a better world."
Dr. Chuck Sandstrom
Rachel Bird2025-07-09T08:04:35+01:00"To borrow from Harold Kushner, forgiveness is first and foremost a way of seeing. It cannot change the facts about the world we live in but it can change the way we see those facts."
Ish Kode Bish Iki / Morris (Doc) Mosay
Rachel Bird2021-02-25T14:36:33+00:00"The abuse remains embedded within my people. It is very difficult to step outside the historical trauma that perpetuates."
Ray Minniecon
Rachel Bird2022-11-14T16:12:20+00:00"Healing is a meaningless word for Aboriginal people because we possess a wound that cannot be healed."
Bjørn Magnus Jacobsen Ihler
Rachel Bird2022-11-14T13:41:31+00:00"I believe that we have to recognize Breivik’s humanity. I find people’s efforts to dehumanize him really scary because that’s what he tried to do to us."
Stephanie Cassatly
Rachel Bird2022-11-11T19:31:31+00:00"That brand of forgiveness was for extremists who went on Oprah."
Jude Whyte
Rachel Bird2021-02-25T15:06:19+00:00"Most people don’t ever forgive because they see it as stampeding on the memory of their loved ones."
Madeleine Black
Rachel Bird2021-02-25T15:10:28+00:00"I used to think that they were evil, but I started to understand that they didn't come into this world that way."