"We have to get back to work. We, the Left.
 By reconnecting with our identity: making social justice the backbone of public policies; take over the democratic question; think about culture; reweave the links of international solidarity with workers, the underprivileged, oppressed women, exploited children, persecuted believers and unbelievers, victims of trafficking, wars, miseries and catastrophes.
 And take it all with your head held high. "Ch. T.

 In a dazzling language, Christiane Taubira is indignant at the inequalities and violence on our planet, attacks the dangerous ideas of extremes, criticizes the permanent invocation of the concept of crisis which establishes the domination of the powerful, identifies the rules of common life
 in a secular society, give back their meaning to the words so often misguided today, trace the axes of an urgent fight.
 A lucid and committed book, a book of hope carried by the breath of a citizen of the Earth who cannot live without exaltation or adapt to the world as it is given to her.