But now they fight and are willing to die for a cause.

不过，现在他们在战斗着，愿意为一个事业而献身。

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It is a legitimate choice to prefer to die in a jail for an unjust cause, with the freedom of knowing that one has a clean spirit, than dying as a slave of addictions surrounded by material riches.

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He'd lived a life of protest for a cause for which he'd been prepared to die.

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