But there are also humble names, recent entries! How much blood,
much pain to get to this constitution!
Behind every article of this Constitution, or young, you have to see young like you died fighting, shot, hanged, tortured, starved to death in concentration camps, died in Russia, died in Africa, died on the streets of Milan to the streets of Florence, cha gave their lives for freedom and justice could be written on this card. So when I told you that this is a dead paper, no, not a dead paper, is a testament is a testament of a hundred thousand deaths.
If you want to go on pilgrimage to the birthplace of our Constitution, go to the partisans in the mountains where they fell, in prisons where they were imprisoned in camps where Fuorni hanged. Wherever an Italian died to redeem the freedom and dignity, go there or young, with the thought, because they came to our Constitution.
Calamandrei - speech to students in Milan (1955)
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