"The student movement of 1968 gathered the demands of several social spheres that had been unable to find a way to speak out. To each repressive act or attempt at control, an imaginative and forceful response arose The movement only lasted two months, but as it is often repeated, there are days, weeks, and months that can contain whole years in themselves Like these young people's bet for silence that poured dignity into oblivion: a living image that lasts till today, a half century later."