“The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads.”

— Giuseppe Mazzini

Watchword for the Roman Republic (1849)

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Italian patriot, politician and philosopher 1805–1872

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