We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.
Humanism is the only — I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.
Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."
(, July 20, 2003)