"But, five hundred years later, we intend to mean something else in the world."
-Barry Lopez.

Here it is in context: "The second point I wish to make is that this violence corruption needn't define us. Looking back on the Spanish incursion, we can take the measure of the horror and assert that we will not be bound by it. We can say, yes, this happened, and we are ashamed. We repudiate the greed. We recognize and condemn the evil. And we see how the harm has been perpetuated. But, five hundred years later, we intend to mean something else in the world."

From his essay "The Rediscovery of North America"