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"Je n'ai pas peur des représailles. Je n'ai pas de gosses, pas de femme, pas de voiture, pas de crédit. ça fait sûrement un peu pompeux, mais je préfère mourir debout que vivre à genoux." - Charb, one of the murdered satirists

"I am not afraid of retaliation. I have no kids, no wife, no car, no mortgage. It surely is a bit dramatic but I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees" - translation from http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/2rmgra/these_two_carto...

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note that everyone is quoting Charb on this, sometimes just quoting the "I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees" that is actually him quoting someone else:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emiliano_Zapata

weired in my old greek lessons it was already said to be the motto of Athen. http://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/3824

Maybe Zappata went to school and studied the story of Athen?

Cars and mortgages... the Greeks sure were really ahead of their time.

Edit: Yeah sure, downvote me instead of the guy that is posting nonsense...

Did you mean to link to a different page? That one doesn't have anything like the Zapata quote.

There is not the Zappata quote, but it still seems relevant :

"Finally, for the Homeric hero, aretê consisted of a set of qualities clustered around the readiness to fight a beautiful war and die a beautiful death."

"preferring to die in their own land rather than live to dwell in that of others"

This has surely been a widespread meme for some time. The quote triggered for me a recollection of the Metallica lines:

  Living on your knees, conformity
  Or dying on your feet for honesty

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