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“Of that, at least, we shall henceforth be sure, as we shall be sure that freedom is not a gift received from a State or a leader but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.”

“No, freedom is not founded on concentration camps, or on the subjugated peoples of thecolonies, or on the workers' poverty! No, the doves of peace do not perch on gallows! No, the forces of freedom cannot mingle the sons of the victims with the executioners of Madrid and elsewhere!”

“The way ahead of us is long. Yet if war does not come and mingle everything in its hideous con-fusion, we shall have time at last to give a form to the justice and freedom we need. But to achieve that we must henceforth categorically refuse, without anger but irrevocably, the lies with which we have been stuffed.”

“They often say that they are defending freedom, but they are defending first of all the privileges freedom gives to them, and to them alone.”

“Choosing freedom is not, as we are told, choosing against justice. On the other hand, freedom is chosen today in relation to those who are everywhere suffering and fighting, and this is the only freedom that counts. It is chosen at the same time as justice, and, to tell the truth, henceforth we cannot choose one without the other.”

“After all, there is probably not one of us here who, either in deed or in thought, did not succumb. But history has progressed, and what we have seen must now make us think things over.”

“Freedom is the concern of the oppressed, and her natural protectors have always come from among the oppressed.”

“The simplest, and hence most tempting, thing is to blame governments or some obscure powers for such naughty behavior. Besides, it is indeed true that they are guilty. But they are not the only ones responsible. After all, if freedom had always had to rely on governments to encourage her growth, she would probably be still in her infancy or else buried with the inscription 'another angel in heaven.’”

“our history is rather one of slavery than of freedom and that the world we live in is the one that has just been described, which leaps out at us from the newspaper every morning to make of our days and our weeks a single day of revolt and disgust.”

“Then perhaps, in a nation that is free and passionately attached to truth, man will begin again to have that feeling for man, without which the world can never be but a vast solitude.”

“I should like them not to give in when they are told that intelligence is always unwelcome
or that it is permissible to lie in order to succeed. I should like them not to give in to guile, to violence, or to inertia.“