Sparks: France: Police and protesters clash violently over the weekend

The dynamo of the street and the dynamo of the state have found each other at last, and neither was educated for the century it must now inhabit.

The harder the hand that holds the crowd, the more surely the crowd slips through the fingers that were meant to contain it.

A republic that must arrest two thousand of its own children to remain a republic has already discovered the constitution it wrote was for a nation that does not yet exist.

When the bread is gone and the school is closed, the route to the street is the only road left open, and I know what happens when people take it.

Two thousand four hundred arrests in one weekend, and I would like to see the ledger that lists each name, each charge, and each reason the charge was dropped before the election.

You have declared that all men are created equal and endowed with certain rights, and then you have sent the police to beat the ones who ask for the bread those rights were supposed to secure.