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Aug172006

great italians

DateThursday, August 17, 2006 at 09:46AM

"I would not wish to a dog or a snake, to the most low and misfortunate creature of the earth — I would not wish to any of them what I have had to suffer for things that I am not guilty of. But my conviction is that I have suffered for things that I am guilty of. I am suffering because I am a radical, and indeed I am a radical; I have suffered because I am an Italian, and indeed I am an Italian".

These lines aren't from a masterwork of Italian theatre. They're the words Bartolomeo Vanzetti, an Italian-born American who along with his friend Alessandro Sacco, was executed in 1927 after a politically motivated unjust trial. Sacco and Vanzetti are today's great Italians.

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