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John Jenkins: Prison Letters (Paperback, 2019, Y Lolfa) Baloraziorik ez

John Barnard Jenkins, in the late Sixties, masterminded the longest and most successful Welsh nationalist …

[...] what strikes me is that our conceptions of objective are as different as our strategy. Your objective is an autonomous Wales while mine is an autonomous Cymru Gymraeg; your enemy is therefore apathy and mine is time, and by that token you can afford to wait while I cannot. Culture is not a land or a country, it is the people, and the graphs are telling a terrible story, so because I want more I must risk more. [...] Finally, you say that perhaps you are mistaken or perhaps I am. I would ask you to remember that if I am wrong I risk only my life, but if you are wrong you risk Wales itself.

Prison Letters,   (21. orria - 23)

Gutun honetan Galestar "nazionalista moderatu" batekin dihardu Jenkins, eta bi ikuspuntuen arteko kontrastea adierazten du argiki. Moderatuak arreta Gales politikoki autonomoan jartzen duen bitartean, Jenkinsek Gales galeseradun eta kulturalki subiranoan jartzen du.

Jenkinsek ez zuen begi txarrez ikusten bide konstituzionala, baina nahikoa ez zela ulertzen zuen, eta haien kulturaren gainbehera azkarra ikusita herria iratzartzeko ekintza bortitzen beharra ikusten zuen, kontzientzia nazionala har zezan eta gehiengo demokratiko nazionalista osatzeko.