Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity

The miracle is that some have stepped out of the rags of the Republic's definition to assume the great burden and glory of their humanity and their responsibility for one another. It is an extraordinary achievement to be trapped in the dungeon of color and to dare to shake down its walls and to step out of it leaving the jailkeeper in the rubble.

Secrets hidden at the heart of midnight are simply waiting to be dragged to the light, as, on some unlucky high noon, they always are. But secrets shrouded in the glare of candor are bound to defeat even the most determined and agile inspector for the light is always changing and proves that the eye cannot be trusted.

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

After departure, only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and loss and love. So many things, so many people, depart! And we can only repossess them in our minds.

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.