And I would visit her in the prisons, sitting side-by-side, knees touching, and I would have to admit to myself that monsters exist in all of us, but that maybe it's not monsters so much, but the broken parts of ourselves, sadnesses, secret shame, and that ultimately it's easy for demagogues to prey on those parts, those fragments, if you will, and to make us look at other beings, human beings, as lesser than ourselves — and in the extreme, to do terrible things.
Y yo la visitaba en la prisión sentada lado a lado, rodilla con rodilla, y tengo que admitir que los monstruos existen en todos nosotros pero que tal vez no sean tanto monstruos, sino partes rotas de nosotros: tristeza, vergüenza secreta, y que en última instancia es fácil para los demagogos aprovecharse de esas partes, de esos fragmentos, si se quiere, y hacernos ver a otros seres, seres humanos, como inferiores a nosotros y en el extremo, hacernos hacer cosas terribles.