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I AM Spartacus! We all remember the famous scene from the 1960 movie Spartacus. Kirk Douglas plays the famous slave leader. A Roman general announces to a group of former slaves that unless they identify Spartacus they will all be crucified.
Spartacus prepares to speak up but then all around him others stand to declare: “I am Spartacus!”
It is perhaps the ultimate demonstration of human solidarity and heroism.
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