Address at the University of The State of Bahia Brazil, 14 December 2000
… from this State when, in one of his celebrated poems, The Slave Ship (Tragedy in the Sea) written in the 19th century, … to ensure that we banish for ever the nightmare of the Slave Ship, where the great lights redden the brilliance of … countries, to the conditions similar to the ones on the Slave Ship. We have to fight this state of existence where …