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"Today, we unfortunately experience in various facets and dramatic dimensions, multiple threats to human life, especially to the most vulnerable populations. For this reason it is very important to constantly promote a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence as a set of values, attitudes and behaviors that reflect the respect for life and the dignity of persons, which will contribute to building a world that is more just, more caring, more dignified, and more prosperous for all."
"I ask El Espinal mayors not to allow more events involving the death of people or animals [after the bullfighting stadium collapse]."
"You all insist that the market will save us from what the market itself has created. Humanity’s Frankenstein is allowing the market and greed to act without any planning, giving up our brains and reason, making human rationality kneel before greed."
"Hitler is knocking on the doors of the homes of the European and North American middle class and many have already let him in. The [climate] exodus will be responded to with a lot of violence, with barbarism itself, what we see in Gaza is the test of the future. Why have large carbon-consuming countries allowed the systematic murder of thousands of children in Gaza? Because Hitler already entered their homes."
"Gaza es simplemente un experimento de los megaricos, tratando de demostrarle a todo los pueblos del mundo cómo se le responde a una rebeldÃa de la humanidad. Piensan bombardearnos a todos."
"Y finalmente recuerden: paÃs rico no es aquel donde los pobres logran tener carro, sino donde los ricos toman el transporte publico."
"Scientists have analyzed this. Cocaine is no worse than whiskey. [...] If you want peace, you have to dismantle the [drug trafficking industry]. It could easily be dismantled if they legalize cocaine in the world. It would be sold like wine."
"[Fentanyl] is killing Americans and it is not made in Colombia. [...] Fentanyl was created as a pharmacy drug by North American multinationals."
"Colombia elects climate champions president Gustavo Petro and vice president Francia Márquez, pledging to put "the defense of life above the interests of economic capital.""
"Donald Trump, speaking about the Colombian president on Air Force One "[Colombia is] run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States. He has cocaine mills and cocaine factories and is not going to be doing it very long"."
"Cocaine is illegal because it is made in Latin America, not because it is worse than whisky."
"«History has a long patience, and wait centuries and centuries to condemn the defamation of men»."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.