UN General Assembly
2022

However, people have always pitched themselves against the aggressor and the genocidaire — free people. Aggression stirs in people the will to resist, courage, fortitude, solidarity and the desire to support victims of injustice. We therefore continue to exist as humankind. I think that that is an obligation derived not only from the harsh laws of politics; it lies at the very foundation of human nature, for, as Pericles put it in his famous Athenian funeral oration: “Happiness is the fruit of freedom and freedom the fruit of valour.” A person and nation can pay any price for freedom and fight for it to the very end. People rebel against slavery, colonialism and oppression because it is their nature and law — the inalienable right of everyone to freedom and respect for their human dignity.