“It is something within us that doesn't let us sleep, that doesn't let us rest, that won't stop pounding deep inside, it is the silent, warm weeping of Indian women without their husbands, it is the sad gaze of children fixed somewhere beyond memory, … What keeps us from sleeping is that they have threatened us with Resurrection! Because every evening though weary of killings, an endless inventory since 1954, yet we go on loving life and do not accept their death! … Because in this marathon of Hope, there are always others to relieve us who carry the strength to reach the finish line which lies beyond death. Join us in this vigil and you will know what it is to dream! Then you will know how marvelous it is to live threatened with Resurrection! To dream awake to keep watch asleep, to live while dying, and to know ourselves already resurrected!”
~ Ms. Julia Esquivel (1930 – ) is a Guatemalan poet, theologian and peace activist. Ms. Esquivel lived in exile from her country for nearly a decade as a result of her work on behalf of justice for indigenous Mayan people.
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