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Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us.
No, they have not, but now, 20 years after this wall fell, so called democratic states go on building walls. Nowadays we use to prevent people from joining us rather than from leaving. And nowadays most of the walls are not made out of stone, but no less unsurmountable[1], this way or the other, as long as we have to build walls to keep our system running, be it Communism, Capitalism or whatever, an be it concrete walls or invisible ones, built up by xenophobic and overall anxious legislation; as long as we keep going that way these walls will always be "the most obvious and vivid demonstration[s] of the failures of the (...) system, for all the world to see, we take no satisfaction in it, for it is (...) an offence not only against history but an offense against humanity" (ibid., [2]).
So let's these days not only commemorate this wall that fell back in 1989, but think about all the walls that stand or even are to be built now, in 2009, considering once again the words of this promising man said in this hopeful speech:
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Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.
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