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Sante Caserio
- Known for
- Assassin
- Born
- Died
Biography
Italian anarchist who in 1894 stabbed the President of the French Republic Marie-François Sadi Carnot to death. Never regretted the gesture, he was sentenced to death for guillotine.
Quote
<p>... if the government uses rifles, chains, prisons against us, should we, the Anarchists, we who defend our lives, remain locked in the house? No. No. On the contrary, we respond to the government with dynamite, bombs, knives, daggers. In a word, we must do what is possible to destroy the bourgeoisie and the governments. Lords of the Jury, you are the representatives of bourgeois society. If you want my head, take it; but do not believe that in this way you will stop the anarchist movement. ..."</p>