Because all things, no matter their cruelty, no matter how ingrained, can be changed, if you are willing to fight for them.

[ Throws it back hard at him. Her hope isn't a beautiful thing, it isn't flowers that she has laced to bind her, not a glimmering candle she looks to in the dark. It is the cold steel in her hand and with it she cuts. ]

I cannot be loyal, I have no country left to be loyal to because of those like the Cetagandans - but that notion, is the only thing that I hold true any more. That for all this lands fault, and there are many, they will at least pass, in time, such as they always have. But neither of us can be fools enough to think that the Cetagadans have the slightest interest in fostering that development.