«Do you know why I choose not to leave? For honor. Yes, for honor! Not for the monstrous, crazy, ridiculous honor that mafiosi with the weak mouths boast about and strong ones with the weaker but for that honor that asks me to have respect for myself, which prevents me from bowing to force and fear, from making pacts with what I despise. That honor that many Sicilians have forgotten to cultivate.» (Livio Abate, from an article by Giuseppe D'Avanzo, La Repubblica, Wednesday, September 5, 2007).

Greet with joy!