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1940–1992 Italy
Paolo Emanuele Borsellino (1940 – 1992) was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate. From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo, Sicily, he spent most of his professional life trying to overthrow the power of the Sicilian Mafia.
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If young people deny it their consent, even the all-powerful and mysterious mafia will vanish like a nightmare.
It is beautiful to die for what you believe in; those who are afraid die every day, those who are not afraid die only once.
I didn't like Palermo, so I learned to love it, because true love means loving what you don't like so that you can change it.
Talk about the mafia. Talk about it on the radio, on television, in the newspapers. But talk about it.
Politics and the mafia are two powers that live off controlling the same territory: either they wage war against each other or they come to an agreement.
At least, I said, if he has to be eliminated, the public must know about it, must be aware of it. The anti-Mafia pool must die in front of everyone, it must not die in silence.
I never asked to deal with the Mafia. I got involved by chance. And then I stayed because of a moral issue. People were dying around me.
It is normal for every person to feel fear, the important thing is that it is accompanied by courage. You must not let fear overwhelm you, otherwise it becomes an obstacle that prevents you from moving forward.
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