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Frederica Montseny

In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

Frederica Montseny

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Frederica Montseny is saying that the people of Spain should use their own judgment and take responsibility both individually and as a society to make decisions without needing a dictatorship to force them. She believes that relying on self-governance shows enough intelligence and maturity to avoid authoritarian control.

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