It is our responsibility as citizens to discover remedies for the evils that we ourselves have produced. A struggle to correct our own mistakes, to learn and re-evaluate our principles and prejudices as we come to recognise our own failures. It's something that we must do and something that we have been doing. The advancements of the Supreme Court here, what passed on May 18th in France -- true equality and indeed equality that even I had to look past my own previous limitations to accept and understand the value of.
But never has it been and never will it be the right of one man to force his opinions onto the world through violence, through death and through the lives of men and women who deserved far better. Never should teaching involve terror. Never will, and never can, what is best for everyone involve the exaltation of one by his own will or by the will of the few that follow him.
There are struggles ahead for us, but as Rousseau said, "I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery" and I have faith that we shall overcome this adversary because we must. Because whatever the cost to maintain our rights to choose for ourselves what be believe and how we pay for and correct our mistakes might be -- the value is immeasurable.