Charb Quotes

• I would rather die standing than live kneeling

  Charb

  Life, Attitude, Future

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• 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.

  Charb

  Country, Jobs, Freedom Of Speech

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

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  Violence, Needs, Activist

  "The Charlie Hebdo Affair: Laughing at Blasphemy" by Emily Greenhouse, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2012.

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

  Charb

  Islam, Way

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

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  Islam, Goes On, Made

  "The Slain Editor Of Charlie Hebdo's Last Cartoon Is Tragically Prescient" by Pierre Bienaimé, www.businessinsider.com. January 7, 2015.

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• I am not afraid of retaliations. I don't have kids. I don't have a wife, no car, no credit. It may seem pompous, but I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.

  Charb

  Kids, Wife, Car

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• A drawing has never killed anyone.

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  Drawing

  "'Charlie Hebdo' Editor in Chief: 'A Drawing Has Never Killed Anyone'". Interview with Stefan Simons, www.spiegel.de. September 20, 2012.

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• I prefer to die standing than to live on my knees.

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  Knees, Standing, Dies

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