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Coscioni. In any case, my name is at your disposal, so that the light of reason and human respect can illuminate the gloomy spirits of those who believe themselves to be, still and always, the masters of their destinies. For a long time we waited for the day to break, we were exhausted by the waiting, until all of a sudden the courage of a man, rendered silent by a terrible disease, gave us renewed strength".
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Coscioni's struggle for scientific research might have been far from unanimously shared in the country, yet it was widely regarded as a fundamental and heroic one. Indeed, Coscioni was unquestionably a symbol for many people. Emma Bonino said "he was the person who like no other embodied the idea of
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wrote him a message to add his support to the one expressed by scores of scientists and
Nobelists saying that "perhaps the support of a mere writer like me will seem a little or a lot out of place in a list of scientific leaders who, with their names and their prestige, seal the words spoken by Luca
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Radicale. Coscioni and his wife would hold a reunion with the Party officials every morning in order to continue and improve the struggle for freedom of research.
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