A collective statement signed by Nathalie Tehio, president of the LDH (League for Human Rights), was published in Le nouvelobs. The appeal, initiated by SOSRacisme along with other organizations fighting racism, includes 160 artists, athletes, academics, and activists, such as Alexis Michalik, Thomas Piketty, Dominique Sopo, Nathalie Tehio, and Alice Zeniter. They responded to attacks suffered by several personalities after their comments against the National Rally, a far-right political party in France. The signatories stated they would not apologize for "raising awareness about the dangers of the far right, racism, antisemitism, islamophobia, or xenophobia." In recent days, Kylian Mbappé, Teddy Riner, Paul Mirabel, and Adèle Exarchopoulos have expressed views that would have seemed ordinary not long ago. Their comments expressed concern about what would happen to the country if it were to be governed by the far right, a political family whose history shows a willingness to undermine democracy, brutalize public debate, and challenge equality based on nationality, skin color, or religion. These views have triggered attacks against each of these personalities, with social networks becoming a place for the expression of hatred. Such hatred has led the judiciary to open an investigation into racist attacks targeting Teddy Riner. On CNews, Pascal Praud announced that he would now list every day the names of artists and athletes who take a stance against the National Rally. Far-right activists have returned personalities such as Kylian Mbappé or Teddy Riner to identity assignments that would make them illegitimate to express concerns about the rising racist hatred and political forces that are its support and outlet. Facing this offensive that reeks of racism and intimidation, the signatories collectively stated they would not remain silent. Whether they are artists, athletes, academics, activists, or trade unionists, they will not apologize for raising awareness about the dangers of the far right, racism, antisemitism, islamophobia, or xenophobia. They will not refuse to express disapproval of statements that target foreigners and promise to deprive them of rights. They will not surrender their right to express themselves when people claim to drive veiled women out of the streets. They will say, on occasion, with the words they choose and in the forms they select, that no French person, man or woman, should be judged and treated based on their melanin level or the origin of their ancestors. They will continue to say that they are proud to evolve in environments where they create, play, or campaign, being strong in everything that France allows for cultural exchanges, encounters beyond borders, and the flourishing of ideas, concepts, and notions from elsewhere, enriched here, unless it is the opposite. They will never be ashamed of their origins, whether they are from here or elsewhere. They will not refrain from asserting that the racist hatred they perceive in the far right is hatred against difference and against equality, which also puts the rights of women or people LGBT at risk. They will always be proud to think that in their country, the stateless Missak Manouchian, the Franco-American Joséphine Baker, or the Jewish Pole Joseph Epstein are heroes and were the honor of France when leaders who shouted their patriotism betrayed abominably by shooting down the Republic, torturing resisters before executing them, or collaborating in the deportation of Jews to places of their extermination. Artists, athletes, or committed personalities, they want to work, create, think, move, love. They want to live without having to justify their name, skin color, religion or lack of religion, gender, or the person they love. They do not want to live in fear, discretion, or secrecy. They know the discomfort, or even the fear, that repeated attacks, insults, and threats can cause. They do not ask anyone to act as if they cost nothing. But they are making a commitment that they ask the majority to take with them: not to leave alone those, famous or anonymous, who suffer attacks, insults, and threats. Do not let them be impressed. They have no reason to be ashamed of who they are. They have no reason to be ashamed of wanting a more free, more just, more equal society. They have no reason to apologize for refusing racism, the promise of a rollback of rights, and the putting of their lives in order. They have lives to lead, works to create, relationships to build, a world to beautify. So, they will lead their lives, create their works, build relationships, and beautify the world. And they will behave as proud citizens, free of their words.