Hello ...
... it's up to Calamandrei Piero, one of the founding fathers of the Republic.
"(...) You see, the constitution is not a machine that once set in motion goes without saying. The constitution is a piece of paper dropped and does not move. Why you should move every day in the fuel lose, you put in the commitment, spirit, the will to keep these promises, his responsibility. That is one of the offenses that are made to the constitution is the indifference to politics, political indifference that is often a disease of large groups of young people. "Politics is an ugly thing," "I care policy" when I make this speech, I always reminded of that old little story, that someone you know, those two immigrants, two farmers, who traversed the 'ocean on a rickety ship. One of these farmers asleep in the hold and the other was on the bridge and noticed that there was
a large storm with high waves and the ship swayed: So this farmer afraid to question a sailor: "But we are in danger? "and it says:" If he continues this sea, the ship sank in half an hour. " Then he runs into the hold to awaken his companion and says, "Beppe, Beppe, Beppe, if it continues this sea, the ship sank in half an hour." What he says: "What do I care, it's not mine!". This indifference to politics. 'S so beautiful, it's so easy: freedom there. We live under the freedom, there are other things to do than to take an interest in politics. And I know too! The world is so beautiful, there are many beautiful things to see and enjoy, as well as involved in politics. Politics is not a pleasant thing. But freedom is like air: you realize what it's worth when it begins to fail, when you hear that sense of asphyxiation men of my generation have felt for twenty years, and I hope you, young people, you'll never hear, and I hope you will not find you never feel this sense of anxiety, because you hope you manage to create the conditions for this sense of anxiety do not have to prove anything, remembering every day that we must take care about freedom, making its contribution to political life. (...) So, you young people to have to give up your spirit, your youth, bring it to life, like what you hear, put in the civic sense.
(...) In this constitution
's in all our history, our whole past. (...) Great voices far, big names away. But there are also humble names, recent entries. How much blood and how much pain to get to this constitution! Behind every article of this constitution, or young, you have to see young people like you, who fell in battle, shot, hanged, tortured, starved to death in concentration camps, deaths in Russia, died in Africa, died on the streets of Milan to the streets of Florence, who 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, this is a will, a will 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 they were hanged. Wherever an Italian died to redeem the freedom and dignity, go there, or young, with the thought that there was born our constitution. "
Piero Calamandrei, 26 gennaio 1955
/*/ "Loro non molleranno mai, noi neppure." /*/ 
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