‘Are these the people for whom so many men, through the ages, in so many countries, have given their lives, dying in the name of universal freedom and equality? Are these the people for whom we lived on hopes and dreams, bringing a new society into being, a Revolutionary army fighting with pitchforks and pikes, spilling torrents of blood under the Terror, acclaiming the inspired words of the People’s Assembly that gave us back our dignity, finally recognising that ‘all men are born and remain free and equal’? Could it be that I misunderstood? Could it mean that only white men are free and
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