I have always been and still am a proponent of a just Algeria, where the two populations can live in peace and equality. I have said and repeated that it is necessary to render justice to the Algerian people and grant them a fully democratic regime…. I have always condemned terror. I must also condemn a terrorism that is practiced blindly, in the streets of Algiers for example, and that one day could strike my mother or my family. I believe in justice, but I will defend my mother before justice.

—Albert Camus, Le Monde (December 14, 1957)

I approve of nothing that has been occurring: the crimes, torture, massacres, assassinations, executions, the destitution, fear, shame, death. It is on all this that we are getting ready to build.

—Mouloud Feraoun, Journal (February 9, 1958)