Enric Prat de la Riba, La nacionalidad catalana
"Mi voz no es lo bastante potente para dirigirse a Cataluña; por eso me dirijo a vosotros tan solo, que sois sus hijos mas amorosos. Repetidla en todas partes, habladle no con la boca sino con el corazón, para que con el corazón os escuche; hacedle oír los rumores primeros de la revolución que se prepara; convencedle de la transcendencia de la gran obra; decidle que las naciones esclavas esperan, como la humanidad en otro tiempo, que venga el Redentor que rompa sus cadenas; haced que sea el genio de Cataluña el Mesías esperado de las naciones."
Oh my god, this is *so beautiful*.
"My voice is not potent enough to be directed to Catalonia; therefore I direct myself to you alone, for you are her most amorous sons. Repeat it everywhere, tell it not with the mouth but with the heart, for it is with the heart that they will hear you; make heard the first rumors of the revolution that is being prepared; convince them of the transcendence of the great work; tell them that the enslaved nations hope, as humanity in another time, that the Redeemer would come who breaks their chains; do so that the genius of Catalonia would be the awaited Messiah of the nations."
rough translation but que encantador éste hablante. This isn't Prat de la Riba, but someone he's quoting, I don't remember who. A Catalan patriot and part of the renacimiento.
Oh my god, this is *so beautiful*.
"My voice is not potent enough to be directed to Catalonia; therefore I direct myself to you alone, for you are her most amorous sons. Repeat it everywhere, tell it not with the mouth but with the heart, for it is with the heart that they will hear you; make heard the first rumors of the revolution that is being prepared; convince them of the transcendence of the great work; tell them that the enslaved nations hope, as humanity in another time, that the Redeemer would come who breaks their chains; do so that the genius of Catalonia would be the awaited Messiah of the nations."
rough translation but que encantador éste hablante. This isn't Prat de la Riba, but someone he's quoting, I don't remember who. A Catalan patriot and part of the renacimiento.