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Execution

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I found myself compelled to fight back from my eyes the tears, and quanch my heart trobling to my throat to not weep before him. But Sacco’s name will live in the hearts of the people when your name, your laws, institutions and your false god are but a dim rememoring of a cursed past in which man was wolf to the man.

Bartolomeo Vanzetti

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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Tamburlaine, the Scourge of God, must die.

Christopher Marlowe

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“I’ll be judge, I’ll be jury,” said cunning old Fury;
“I’ll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.”

Lewis Carroll

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Our words—our lives—our pains: nothing! The taking of our lives—lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish peddler—all! That last moment belongs to us—that agony is our triumph.

Bartolomeo Vanzetti

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Let no man write my epitaph…. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then and not till then, let my epitaph be written.

Robert Emmet

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