So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one.

Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign of its own existence outside itself, in a discourse that is at once dominant and indifferent. Social categories signify subordination and existence at once. In other words, within subjection the price of existence is subordination.

A certain kind of permission is given to live differently, to conceptualize and to act according to a new conceptualization.

It's important that if one opposes discriminatory speech, one opposes all kinds. That is that one decides on a principle that it will include all minorities. But if the protection of one minority against another minority is what is happening, then I worry about that.

The state or global forms of power that seek to protect populations considered in danger may well extend their own power through those acts of protection.

We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new class of refugees - you can't solve a refugee problem by producing a new, potentially greater refugee problem.

If we are looking for signs of democratization, then surely we are looking as well for forms of living on equal terms in and among cultural differences.