"I understand how this
pain hurts,
but sing and do not cry. Your best witness is a voice in the air
and not the outcry bordering the speech that, at the end,
prevents reflection on what is happening ".
Juan Goytisolo in "La voz y el mundo".
Our power is the voice and the word. An
indomitable strength when it becomes the cry of the people makes us moves towards havens of light and hope.
On one hand, we
have to say "No" to force, and renounce always to violence. On the other
hand, we have to say "Yes" to the tenacious perseverance in not underestimating
the consequences of war, imposition, force and power, in such a way that encounter
and dialogue, our long standing dream, are reachable.
The future cannot be as permanent
as the past: Don Antonio Machado urged us to review history lessons to discover
if a description of the past is faithful to the facts. But above all, urges us to write the future
together. The only way to calm the pain
and the memory of past wounds is to dare and imagine to walk together, to define
together, to live together -all different, all equal, all unique- the time and space
that are yet intact before us. This is
the supreme legacy. This is the supreme inheritance.
We have not fulfilled our promises too often.
In times of prosperity we have not recalled the measures taken in times of
trouble, when human pressure is more creative and when passion and compassion include so many things.
To dare is essential. We must remember the appalling
words of Albert Camus: "I despise them because they could
have done so much, yet dared to do so little”. Let us raise our eyes and look forward. What matters is what is
in the bend of the road,
beyond the valleys of the nearby hills that prevent contemplate the horizon.
Only on the ledge, with the fog in front of you, on the dividing line between
light and darkness. With more doubts than certainties. But with hope because
the future is there, waiting the cross-ploughing line, water and
seed.
Planting and sowing without thinking of the harvest. Many seeds will not
give results, but there is a fruit that will never bear it: the one of the seed
that has not been planted.
We cannot allow that
nature and heart die out at the same time. When it is said that there is no solution, do not
believe it. It's because they do not know how to
find it. It is because they cannot see beyond the urgent tasks of each hour.
Each time we must move forward, invent and design the route.
The answers are
always within us, never outside. We need to listen to everyone, to everything
but then it is necessary to be free, free to express stubbornly and decide for
ourselves. To be guided by our thoughts and not by instructions and suggestions
of others.
Hope is part of the creative capacity of the human beings to be used against
inertia and routine. To act differently and not in a predictable way. And to respond without hatred
or resentment like President Mandela.
Large sums of money are invested in borders’ protection and very little to
safeguard what lies within them: children, women, wood, water, soil, air... We
have come to accept the unacceptable: street children, abandonment. What kind
of civilization is this that finds excuses to not take care of the children and
considers "expensive" the AIDS treatment in patients without
financial resources?
This is the crime of
silence. We must work tirelessly to raise the voice, more and more voices, until we achieve for you -for
you that you are already with us and for you that will be tomorrow- a life more
in accordance with the dignity of every human being. Only then we will be able
to look into your eyes.
Much courage will be needed to, with the power of the word, change
everything that we have not been able to change until now.
One
day in 1945, at the end of the Second World War, with our minds and eyes full
of horror, promised to avoid future generations, suffering from violence and
war. We must now urgently fulfill the promises we have not achieved.
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