Civilisation is that I protect your right to have an opinion which is different from mine.

And that is why I took up the gun not to shoot, not to kill, not to destroy, but to stop those who would do evil, to protect the vulnerable, to defend democratic values, to stand up for the freedom we have to talk here today in Amsterdam about how we can make the world a better place.

And I was protecting the project from it, I realized. I was protecting it I didn't want this special, little group of photographs to get sullied in some way.