The answer as to what a few can do against heavy odds was given fifty years ago by the editor of the Nouvelle Revue Françoise, a Parisian literary journal, who joined the Resistance in 1942, and when asked what one Frenchman could do against the might of the Third Reich, his answer was: “you can squeeze a bee in your hand until it suffocates — it would suffocate after stinging you — that’s precious little, you will say, but if it did not sting you, bees would have become extinct a long time ago”. Let us have more bees to sting the body politic.
The writer is an eminent jurist
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