The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.

We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.

...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don't want to improve ourselves and be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen. In short, we should like, at the same time, to cease being guilty and yet not to make the effort of cleansing ourselves.

The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent

No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.

The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.