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...The state of our world today is deplorable, inexcusable and, therefore, shameful. What Tolstoy denounced as “mad selfishness” explains why, as trillions of dollars are spent on wars of aggression, more than half the world’s people languish in hunger and destitution. Our priorities, sisters and brothers, could hardly be more confused.
...To escape from this morass, we have only to recognize that we are all sisters and brothers, and to recognize, as well, that this truth demands that we change our way of thinking, behaving and interacting with one another. At this point in the odyssey of our human existence, our interdependence and inherent mutuality remains the central truth. Our acceptance of that truth and of its logical consequences will determine whether coming generations will have a decent future.
...Let us free ourselves, as well, from addiction to war and violence in general. Such dreams and behaviour are incompatible with the principles, to which we have all committed ourselves, within the Charter and with the ideal of a world at peace and with international security. Let us work together now to make a truly “United Nations” — united, fraternal, joined in solidarity. Now is the time for all of us to begin the process of turning weapons into ploughshares to feed a hungry world.

...The perverse logic of selfishness must be replaced with the logic of love, of inclusiveness, of “we” and “our”, of solidarity.

(H.E. Mr. Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Opening statement, 63rd GA session )

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