Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rig…
Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. You are . . . soldiers without a banner, Israelites among the nations, you will find neither faith nor protection; none will be sureties for you. Do not beguile yourselves with the hope of emancipation from unjust social conditions if you do not first conquer a Country for yourselves; where there is no Country there is no common agreement to which you can appeal; the egoism of self-interest rules alone, and he who has the upper hand keeps it, since there is no common safeguard for the interests of all. Do not be led away by the idea of improving your material conditions without first solving the national question. You cannot do it. Guiseppe Mazzini, leader of Young Italy Which of the following statements accurately describe the most negative effect of the developments described?
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