"The difference between a citizen and a subject is this: a citizen has few obligations and few prohibitions imposed on them, and if they respect these, they are a free person; a subject is a person on whom millions of obligations and prohibitions are imposed, the violation of which is usually tolerated, but if they raise their head, they are given a list of all the violations they have committed up to that point."
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From the rpesentation of the book entitled Farla Franca. La legge è uguale per tutti?, Modena, 13 March 2012. Video available on Youtube.com
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