It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

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It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

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Il vaut mieux mourir debout que de vivre a genoux!

Dolores Ibarruri

1936

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Ibarruri, Dolores. Speech delivered at a mass meeting. 3 Sept. 1936, Winter Velodrome, Paris, France.

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