Deodoro Roca

“ From The Argentinian Youth of Córdoba to The Free Men of South America
Men of a Free Republic, we've just broken the last chain that, in middle of the XX century, tied us to the old monastic and monarchic domination. We've decided to call all things by their own name. Cordoba redeems itself. From today, we have in this country one less shame and one more freedom. The pains that remain are the freedoms we still lack. We think we don't err, our beating hearts warn us: we're stepping on a revolution, we're living an american hour. ”

“ Our university system -even the most recent- is anachronistic. It is founded on a sort of divine right, the divine right of tenured professors. It creates itself. It is born and dies in itself. Maintains an olympic distance. ”

“ Sacrifice is our best encouragement, spiritual redemption of American youth our only reward, for we know that our truths are real -and painful- for the whole continent. That in our country one law - they say -, the Avellaneda's Act is opposed to our desires?. Then on to reform the law; our moral health requires it.
Youth always lives in the process of heroism. It is selfless, pure. ”

“ If there is no spiritual connection between teacher and student, all teaching is hostile and therefore sterile. All education is a long labor of love for learning. To search for guarantees of a fruitful peace in threatening articles of a regulation or a statute is in any case, upholding military discipline, but not the work of science. ”

“ Others -the most- in name of religious feeling and under the patronage of the Society of Jesus, exhorted to treachery and subordination (curious religion that which teaches to despise honor and depress the personality! Religion for the defeated or the slave!) . A liberal reform had been obtained through the heroic sacrifice of youth. A guarantee was thought to be won and the enemies of reform were seizing that same guarantee. In the shadows, the Jesuits had prepared the triumph of a deep immorality. Consenting to it would have meant another betrayal. To mockery we responded with revolution. ”

“ Rebellion erupts in Cordoba, and is violent, because here the tyrants had become arrogant, and it was necessary to erase forever the memory of May's counterrevolutionaries. Universities had been so far the secular refuge of the mediocre, the ignorant's tenure, a safe hospital for the handicapped and -what's even worst- the place were all ways to tyranize and numb found a Chair to teach them. Universities have then become a true reflection of this decadent societies that insist in the sad spectacle of a senile immobility. ”

“ Youth no longer requires. It demands to be granted the right to externalize its own thought in university bodies through their representatives. It's tired of supporting tyrants. If it has been able to make a revolution in consciousness, it can not be denied the capacity to intervene in the governance of their own home.
The university students of Cordoba, through their Federation, salutes all fellow americans and encourages them to cooperate in the work of freedom that starts. ”

“ The University of Córdoba Federation stands to fight against this regime and understands that in doing so, it bets its life. It demands a strictly democratic government and argues that the university demos, sovereignty, the right to be self-government is mainly on the students. The concept of authority that belongs to and comes with being a director or teacher in a home for college students can not rely on the strength of an authority foreign to the substance of the studies. Authority, in a home for students, is not exercised by ordering, but by suggesting and loving: teaching. ”

“ To keep the current relation between those who govern and the governed is to stir the ferment for future disruptions. The souls of young people should be driven by spiritual forces. The worn springs of authority emanating from force do not agree with what our feelings and the modern concept of universities demand. ”

“ It's never wrong in choosing its own teachers. Young people are not swayed by flattering or riches. They have to be allowed to choose their teachers and principals themselves, confident that the success will crown its determinations. Henceforth, only the true builders of souls, creators of truth, beauty and goodness will be allowed to be teachers in the future universitary republic..
Córdoba's university students believe that it is time to raise this serious problem to the attention of the country and its representative men. ”

“ When, in a rare flash, opens its doors to high spirits, it's to regret it later and make life immposible for them inside their walls. That's why, in such regime, natural forces lead to the mediocrization of teaching and the vital widening of academic organisms is not brought by organic developments, but by the breath of revolutionary periodicity. ”

“ By confessing the ideals and principles that motivate young people in this hour of his life, it only wants to describe the local aspects of the conflict and raise high the flame that is burning the old stronghold of clerical oppression. ”