And the grey man said:

“At times, to be silent is to lie.
You will win
because you have enough brute force,
but you will not convince.
For to convince, you need to persuade,
and in order to persuade, you need what you lack –
Reason and Right”

And the man with the gun bawled:

Viva la muerte! Y muera la inteligencia! -
“Long live death! And death to your reasoning!”
So Milan-Astray the fascist,
cocking his pistol, escorted
Miguel de Unamuno,
thinker, poet, scholar,
Professor of Greek and Rector
of a great University
out of the hall and into house arrest
where he presently died.

You who are not disciples of the gun,
who prize the hope of life above glorious death,
you who love wisdom, consider the words of Paul:
“For thy sake we are killed all the day long
and accounted as sheep for the slaughter”