"If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way."
"I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul."
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Source: J'accuse! (I Accuse!). Open letter to French President Félix Faure, published in L'Aurore [The Dawn], January 13, 1898.
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