We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be.

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.

Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.

The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people.

I'm discriminated against all the time.

Slobodan Miloševi?, more than anyone else, caused a division within the Left and Centre Left, dividing the pacifists, anti-imperialists and anti-Americans from the anti-fascists and the internationalists. He reminded too many of us that inaction can be as toxic and murderous as action. He prepared us - for weal or woe - for the new world.

At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them.