At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.

An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.

In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.