The Oath of the Young Italy
The oath of Young Italy
In the name of God and of Italy, in the name of all the martyrs of the holy Italian cause fallen under the blows of tyranny, foreign and domestic, for the duties which bind me to the land where God has placed me
and brothers that has given me, for the love, innate in every man, to places where my mother was born and where my children will live, for the hatred, innate in every man, evil, usurpation, injustice, arbitrariness, and for that I feel the redness in the face to citizens of other nations of failing to name or
rights as citizens, nor the flag of a nation or country, for the thrill of my soul, created to liberty and impotent to exercise it, created the work of good and powerless to do so in silence and 'Isolation of servitude; to the memory of power, the conscience of this degradation, the tears of Italian mothers for their children dead on stage, in prisons, in exile, I ... believer in the mission committed by God to Italy, and the duty that every man, born Italian, has to contribute to its fulfillment; convinced that where God has chosen to be the nation are the forces necessary to create it;
that the people shall be the depository of those forces. that direct them to the people and the people is the secret of victory, convinced that virtue lies in action and sacrifice that the union is strength and constancy of will, give my name to Young Italy, an association believers in the same faith, I swear to consecrate everything and always be with them in Italy a nation, independent, free and republican.
To promote by all means of speech, writing, action, education
my brothers' intention of Young Italy, which alone can make the association permanent conquest. Not belong to this day on to other associations. To comply with the instructions that I will be transmitted in the spirit of Young Italy who represents the union with me my brothers', and maintain, also, the price of life, inviolate the secrets.
coll'opera to assist and counsel to 'my brothers in the association. .
now and forever. So I swear, invoking upon my head the wrath of God, the abomination of men and the infamy of the perjurer, if I betrayed all or part of my oath
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