“WE WERE the half-men who did not know that we could declare our humanity and be whole again, because we gave a part of it away to those who said, ‘You have the favor of the gods, and righteousness to pursue your enemies into victory!’

“The fields are strewn with the harvest now, and innocence laid waste by holy winds has left its shadow in stains of blood across the landscape of a gentle Earth. We were the violence that tears this world apart because we shaped it by habit into the image of our worship, and taught it to our children.

“In this future time, of power of one to affect and condemn another, we cannot continue to be half-human, divided against ourselves and against nature, the other half possessed by angry gods who manipulate their primeval territories in the mind. We must heal the damage they have done in their tenacious business and free the soul of the darkness that clings weightily against it, embracing at last, and joining the complete and infinite creation which holds our salvation in unity…”

-SM NONA, (from Fo’s Nobel speech) in THE BRIGHTNESS.