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Yet from their faces I knew that the contagion of self-respect, of nobility, flamed in the mines beneath Tharna. - (Outlaw of Gor, Chapter 18, Sentence #68)

And, too, they told of the strange, new things that happened in the mine at the bottom of the central shaft, how men helped one another, and could find the time and will to remember a tune. And as time passed I learned from the food slaves that this revolution, as unannounced and silent as the foot of a larl, had begun to spread from mine to mine. Soon I noticed that the food slaves spoke no more, and gathered that they had been warned to silence. Yet from their faces I knew that the contagion of self-respect, of nobility, flamed in the mines beneath Tharna. Here, underground, in the mines, home of that which was lowest and most degraded in Tharna, men came to look upon one another, and themselves, with satisfaction. I decided it was time. That night, when we were herded into the long cell, and the bolts were shoved in place, I spoke to the men. - (Outlaw of Gor)