On: Slavery's last stronghold

[Maro]

  - Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. -

  Abdel read the line again and again.

  “I started to ask myself if lies were coming out of
  this book,” he told us, “or if they were rather
  coming out of my very own culture.”

I just read V for Vendetta, the original comic book over the weekend:

  We are told to remember the idea, not the man,
  because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be
  killed and forgotten, but 400 years later, an idea can
  still change the world.

and

  Beneath this mask there is more than flesh.
  Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy.
  And ideas are bulletproof.