It is not right, my fellow countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name, it's not at all right that you do not breathe a word about them to anyone, not even to your own soul, for fear of having to stand in judgment of yourself. I am willing to believe that at the beginning you did not realize what was happening; later, you doubted whether such things could be true; but now you know, and still you hold your tongues.
~ From Jean-Paul Sartre's "Preface" to Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth.
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