UN General Assembly
1972

35. The voices of condemnation which we began to hear against the freedom fighters, some of which were pronounced from this rostrum in an attempt to equate struggle with terrorism, were neither new nor strange to the history of struggle. The same charges were leveled against the comrades of Cromwell and Washington, against the comrades of the Paris communes, against the comrades of Simon Bolivar and Garibaldi, against the heroes of the French resistance, against the comrades of Lenin and Mao Tse-tung, against the freedom fighters in Algeria and all Africa, and against the many, many others in the long list of heroes throughout the history of human struggle for freedom. That did not discourage the freedom fighters nor dissuade them from their march along the arduous path to freedom. As we go through the last third of this century, it is our duty to stand beside those fighters and help them regain their legitimate rights. It is the duty of the United Nations to play an essential role in this respect.