Camus on terrorism
In 1957, addressing a rowdy gathering of Algerian students demonstrating against colonisation and demanding democracy, the writer Albert Camus somethings that are still relevant from Kiev to Kashmir. He said:
"You are in favor of democracy in Algeria, so please be democratic now and let me speak. Let me finish my sentences because the meaning of a sentence is not clear till it ends.
"I have often condemned terrorism. I must also condemn the blind terrorism that can be seen in the streets of Algiers for example, that which might strike my mother or family. I believe in justice but I will defend my mother before justice.
"Life may be shaped by ideology but it is lived exclusively by men and women."
"You are in favor of democracy in Algeria, so please be democratic now and let me speak. Let me finish my sentences because the meaning of a sentence is not clear till it ends.
"I have often condemned terrorism. I must also condemn the blind terrorism that can be seen in the streets of Algiers for example, that which might strike my mother or family. I believe in justice but I will defend my mother before justice.
"Life may be shaped by ideology but it is lived exclusively by men and women."
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