Plínio Prado*
Would you mind to be called reactionary? In order to answer this question, here is another one: Do you know what being a reactionary means? If you know it, would you accept this qualification? Or would you feel ashamed or embarrassed or inclined to say: No! I am not a reactionary.
Whatever may your answer be, I say to you: May be it is really necessary for us to be reactionaries. Being a reactionary means not to be submissive. Being a reactionary means to react. Being a reactionary means not to accommodate yourself. Not to submit yourself.
Being a reactionary means to be free to make your own choices. Being a reactionary means to have your own opinion and that you are able to disagree of what you feel you should not agree with.
If being a reactionary means to set your own path, rather than following the path imposed on you, then I can say you are a free person, endowed with the capacity to make your own mind and adopt your own decisions.
Would you mind to be called reactionary? In order to answer this question, here is another one: Do you know what being a reactionary means? If you know it, would you accept this qualification? Or would you feel ashamed or embarrassed or inclined to say: No! I am not a reactionary.
Whatever may your answer be, I say to you: May be it is really necessary for us to be reactionaries. Being a reactionary means not to be submissive. Being a reactionary means to react. Being a reactionary means not to accommodate yourself. Not to submit yourself.
Being a reactionary means to be free to make your own choices. Being a reactionary means to have your own opinion and that you are able to disagree of what you feel you should not agree with.
If being a reactionary means to set your own path, rather than following the path imposed on you, then I can say you are a free person, endowed with the capacity to make your own mind and adopt your own decisions.
Hail to the reactionaries!
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Plínio Prado (Plinio G. Prado-Garcia) is a Brazilian lawyer; member of the Committee for the Defense of the Republic and Democracy of the Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo Chapter; senior partner of Prado Garcia Advogados – Attorneys and Consultants (www.pradogarcia.com.br); e-mail: plinio@pradogarcia.com.br; Master of Comparative Law (G.W. University, Washington, D.C.)
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