Charb Quotes

#1. When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.

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#2. Charlie Hebdo has been sued a good dozen times by the General Alliance against Racism and for Respect of French and Christian Identity (AGRIF), an organization of Catholic fundamentalists who long maintained close ties with the National Front.

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#3. Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country without freedom of speech. I prefer to die than live like a rat.

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#4. If tomorrow the Muslims of France were to convert to Catholicism or renounce all religion, it wouldn't make the least bit of difference to the racists - they would continue to hold these foreigners or French citizens of foreign descent responsible for every affliction.

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#5. criticizing an ideology, including a religious ideology, however vociferously, is different from inducing hatred of a people or persons.

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#6. We have to go on until Islam is made as ho-hum as Catholicism.

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#7. Being afraid of Islam is no doubt moronic, absurd, and plenty of other things as well, but it's not a crime.

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#8. I would rather die standing than live kneeling

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#9. A drawing has never killed anyone.

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#10. So let's talk about Islam the way we talk about everything else.

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#11. I prefer to die standing than to live on my knees,

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#12. In caving to an extremist minority that represents no one but itself, you acknowledge its power.

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#13. God is sacred only to those who believe in him. If you wish to insult or offend God, you have to be sure that he exists.

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