By covering up, fleeing, or distorting history, people just end up repeating the same mistakes. "The memorial announces to the world that Taiwan's nearly 50 years of white terror is in the past, and that the nation will never fall into the same trap. It offers a way forward, toward a future in which mothers will never have to cry again.
掩飾、逃避、曲解歷史，只會使過錯不斷重覆」，柏楊說，這個紀念碑就是向世界宣告：台灣長達五十年的白色恐怖過去了，不會再重蹈歷史的覆轍；展望未來，是一個母親不再流淚的時代。