From Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, Jaguar Paw (in italics) and his father:
Those people in the forest, what did you see on them?
I do not understand.
Fear.... Deep rotting fear. They were infected by it. Did you see? Fear is a sickness. It will crawl into the soul of anyone who engages it. It has tainted your peace already. I did not raise you to see you live with fear. Strike it from your heart. Do not bring it into our village.
At first light we will gather with the elders at the sacred hill of our fathers. There we will call upon their spirits to guide us.
My father did not fight World War II so that his children could live in fear of their own elected representatives.
We shall no longer fear this sickness called forth by those who fear and hate Democracy. We shall fight against the in-your-face fear and ignorance of those people. We shall excise them from our souls. We shall call upon God and the spirits of our fathers and mothers to guide us to eradicate this plague of fear. Then we shall turn to re-establishing virtue.
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