"You know how it's difficult to speak objectively of Robespierre and of Saint-Just nowadays, that when they speak of them, it's generally to speak ill of them, and never to remind the good part, [when they posed] the first elements of a social politics."

If the issue is between the "good" vs. the "evil" in a person's life and career...how many statues do we have in the USA in honor of revolutionaries that owned slaves?